US Power Outages

[Duncan Frissell]

At 10:15 AM 8/12/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>This morning, I read the new claim: extreme heat (presumably assisted by 
>heat dissipated in the power line itself) cause the power cables near The 
>Dalles (about 100 miles east of Portland, along the Columbia river) to 
>stretch and sag, eventually shorting themselves out to trees near the ground.

The real cause was inadequate supply of nuclear power plants caused by
technophobe agitation.  

DCF