A spokeswoman for Canada's Ministry of National Defense Thursday blamed the outages on a lightning strike in the Niagara region on the U.S. side of the border.
Reliable sources, and officials of the national electrical board (whatever the real name of it is) have reported that it was not a lightening strike.
After the 1965 blackout the electric companies all interconnected their supplies so that if one was stressed they could call on one another for backup.
Sounds sensible on its face but we have just experienced the flaw in that plan!
Surely they could figure a way to isolate supplies and have specialized routines for getting backup when high demand and low supply situations occur.
My money is still on a flaw in the software that was inadequately backed up and/or protected.
