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Mayor Michael Bloomberg recommended New Yorkers treat the Friday "as a snow day"
and not to go into work. "It wouldn't be the worst thing to take a day off," he said. New
York's electricity would be restored later that day, around 29 hours after it stopped. For most
of the towns, cities and rural areas hit by the outage, power would be up and running
again within 48 hours 3 although some places would remain without power for up to four
days afterwards.
The cause of the blackout
In its immediate aftermath, the US and Canada were quick to point the finger at each other as being responsible for the blackout. The two governments agreed to set up a joint taskforce that traced the first failure back to the power operator FirstEnergy's Eastlake plant in
Ohio. Investigators found that a high-voltage power cable had sagged due to the intense
heat generated by the electricity flowing through it. This caused the cable to brush against
overgrown trees that hadn't been cut back. Safety measures were triggered, automatically
shutting that power line down. To compensate, other lines took on increased power loads.
But as they heated up, they too sagged, making contact with the trees and shutting down.
An alarm should have alerted FirstEnergy's control room of the deteriorating situation, so
they could reroute power. But due to a software bug, the system malfunctioned, leaving
technicians unaware what was happening. The electricity grid became overtaxed and ultimately collapsed under the strain, triggering a cascading series of outages throughout
eight northeastern US states as well as southeastern Canada.
The call to come out of Babylon (Revelation 18:4) also includes not relying on their systems and structures.
To rely on their systems leaves us open to manipulation.
It is imperative that we have an independent source of power.
