So, who was it then....

[AdeV]

Huh.  On Coast to Coast AM last night, they were talking about it being such a coincidence that the Commander in Thief brought up as part of the job creation deal for the grid to be updated.
The news claimed Operator error when someone changed out a component in a small AZ substation that should have affected 60,000 homes or so,
but somehow caused a cascade failure.

Sort of like the squirrel that took down the Northeast grid a while ago.

Seriously, we are having a bunch of flares from the sun.

AIUI, sunspot (& hence flare activity) numbers are relatively low at the moment, certainly not enough to cause major grid problems. Besides, you'd expect Canada to be worse affected than Arizona/California.

The news here reported that an operator attempted to repair a monitor; the repair failed & caused a large part of the grid to shut down; probably because it got an erroneous fault report from the failed monitor...

[LowGear]

Sounds like the Galileo Effect to me.

Casey

[deeiche]

isn't Blackpool in Wales.   

Depends how big your map is, and how hard you squint  It can be made to look like it's in Wales....

You are a true sport.

New Mexico is somewhere between Arizona and Texas.  Have you ever heard of Los Alamos?

I have a book called Los Alamos, IIRC it was something to do with the Manhatten Project, beyond that, nope...

spot on

[vdubnut62]

Sounds like the Galileo Effect to me.

Casey

Had to google that one!
Ron

[rcavictim]

It was a test run for when thay bring the new phase variance program on line.
Tom T

That's too funny!