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Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jul 14 15:57:24 2026, in response to Re: Happy 49th anniversary of the Blackout Night, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jul 14 08:14:52 2026. Con Ed was warned that night that they have to "shed some load" (deliberately black out neighborhoods) or you are going to lose the whole city. Since the other power sources were generating power to compensate, those generators started redlining. Eventually as a safety measure to keep from burning out, they all tripped offline and the City went dark. It seemed that nobody at the Con Ed facilities had the authority (balls?) to do the load shedding which might have kept the lights on. |
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