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Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Dec 5 17:25:48 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Nov 19 12:54:39 2015. As has been made clear already, the power supplied to phone lines by the COs came from storage batteries located on the CO premises. Under normal circumstances, the batteries were recharged by electricity derived from Con Ed power lines, but the batteries could power phone lines for a time without Con Ed power. And the COs (most? all?) also had on-site generators to recharge the batteries in the event of a prolonged outage. So the phone lines did NOT depend on an uninterrupted supply of electricity from Con Ed. |
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