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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 2003
Page
9
Experts cite aging grid, overload, and rapid cascade after initial failure as key factors. Lightning or storms may trigger. once triggered, breakers failed to contain spread. Officials call for regulatory and investment incentives plus smarter computer controls to prevent future outages.
In London and Tokyo and across Europe and Asia, people react with disbelief to the U S blackout that left over 50 million in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada without power. Respondents note how such outages are commonplace elsewhere and wonder at America's panic. Photographs show New York workers evacuating after the outage began around 4 p.m. EDT Thursday.
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