2003 Power Outage From Space
On august 14 within 2 hours.
2003 power outage from space. A surge of electricity to western new york and canada touched off a series of power failures and enforced blackouts yesterday that left parts of at least eight states in the. The 2003 blackout was short lived and power was restored in most regions the next day. Beginning at 410 pm. About 50 million people lost power aug.
A major outage knocked out power across the eastern united states and parts of canada on august 14 2003. August 14 and 15 2003 the northeastern us. Et 21 power plants shut down in just three minutes. Great northeast power blackout of 2003 on august 14 2003 parts of the northeastern united states and southeastern canada experienced widespread power blackouts.
14 2003 when a tree branch in ohio started an outage that cascaded across a broad swath from michigan to new england and canada. And southern canada suffered the worst power blackout in history. The us states of new york new. Areas affected extended from new york massachusetts and new jersey west to michigan and from ohio north to toronto and ottawa ontario.
Quebec was not affected because its power supply was not part of the lake erie transmission loop a system of. Eastern daylight time a high voltage power line in northern ohio brushed against some overgrown trees and shut downa fault as its known in the power. A massive blackout in northeastern north america crippled ontario in 2003. 14 2003 a tree branch in ohio fell onto a high voltage power line and that outage affected eight states from new york to canada and michigan.
New york subways resumed limited services around 8 pm. A first hand look back at how it started. A software bug failed to re distribute the. Most places restored power by midnight within 7 hours some as early as 6 pm.
Commuters in new york.