Subject: RE: Best bike in a blackout?--Sorry!

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All I can say is that I am glad I can come finally come out again and say I
am Canadian without getting stuff thrown at me.For a while, while the blame
was on Canada for causing the blackout, I was thinking I might have to leave
the country :-)

Thanks for fessing up John......I am sure you will be getting a few calls
from the myriad of lawyers that are now cirlcing overhead.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Prusnek [mailto:spaj-@raex.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 11:54 AM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: Best bike in a blackout?--Sorry!

Ok, ok, like, I'm sorry, it was me. I put a cup af coffee in the
microwave while I was making toast and then turned on the hair dryer.
Stupid, I know. Hey, I'm sorry, won't do it again...

John Prusnek

The probe into what triggered an eight-state, two-nation
blackout that left 50 million people in the dark zeroed in on an!
area just south of Cleveland, near Mantua, Ohio, where a leading
investigator said
three transmission lines failed just before the massive outage.With power
finally restored, meanwhile, life was returning to
normal in cities across the region Sunday, though there were
lingering reminders: garbage cans overflowing with spoiled food,
continuing water-boil warnings and the flood of questions asking
how could it happen.Michehl Gent, head of the North American Electric
Reliability
Council, suggested human error might have been the reason the
problems were not isolated before they knocked out power from
Michigan to Ontario to New York.``The system has been designed and rules
have been created to
prevent this escalation and cascading. It should have stopped,''
Gent said in a telephone conference call.Gent said investigators were
examining more than 10,000 pages of
data, including automatically generated logs on power flows over
transmission lines, to determine what caused the blackout.FirstEnergy Corp.,
the Akron, Ohio-based utility that officials
said owned at least two of the three lines, said alarm systems that
might have alerted engineers to the failed lines were broken, but
that functioning backup systems had been in place.

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<DIV>All I
can say is that I am glad I can come finally come out again and say I am
Canadian without getting stuff thrown at me.For a while, while the blame was on
Canada for causing the blackout, I was thinking I might have to leave the
country :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks
for fessing up John......I am sure you will be getting a few calls from the
myriad of lawyers that are now cirlcing overhead.</DIV>
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<DIV> -----Original Message----- From:
John Prusnek [mailto:spaj-@raex.com] Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003
11:54 AM To: Loopfram-@topica.com Subject: Best bike
in a blackout?--Sorry! </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Ok,
ok, like, I'm sorry, it was me. I put a cup af coffee in the microwave
while I was making toast and then turned on the hair dryer. Stupid, I
know. Hey, I'm sorry, won't do it again... John Prusnek 
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE>The probe into what triggered an eight-state, two-nation
blackout that left 50 million people in the dark zeroed in on an!
area just south of Cleveland, near Mantua, Ohio, where a leading investigator said
three transmission lines failed just before the massive outage.With power finally restored, meanwhile, life was returning to
normal in cities across the region Sunday, though there were
lingering reminders: garbage cans overflowing with spoiled food,
continuing water-boil warnings and the flood of questions asking
how could it happen.Michehl Gent, head of the North American Electric Reliability
Council, suggested human error might have been the reason the
problems were not isolated before they knocked out power from
Michigan to Ontario to New York.``The system has been designed and rules have been created to
prevent this escalation and cascading. It should have stopped,''
Gent said in a telephone conference call.Gent said investigators were examining more than 10,000 pages of
data, including automatically generated logs on power flows over
transmission lines, to determine what caused the blackout.FirstEnergy Corp., the Akron, Ohio-based utility that officials
said owned at least two of the three lines, said alarm systems that
might have alerted engineers to the failed lines were broken, but
that functioning backup systems had been in place.</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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Subject: RE: Best bike in a blackout?--Sorry!

Author: Ian Adkins

Date: Aug 18, 2003, 4:43 AM

Post ID: 1714187222

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