Are you suggesting the outage was caused by carbon filaments rocketed across transmission lines? If that was done at several points in the grid it would account for the various finger-pointing to incidents which are claimed to have started the usual-suspect "cascade" of the usual-suspect "antiquated" system that was "not supposed to fail but it did." Perhaps a re-inventory of the USAF's storehouse of BLU-114s is needed to double-check that story about lightning strike. Harmon Seaver wrote:
Somehow I have difficulty believing the these people could be so totally lame as to be running mission-critical stuff like this on windoze. Please say it isn't true. Is the military also now dependant on windoze? Bizarre, absolutely bizarre. And here I thought it was probably caused by people with potato guns firing tennis balls filled with concrete, attached to coils of wire cable, dropping them across the power lines and transformer stations.