Thread: Lights Out (time to speculate)
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Old Aug 16th, 2003, 11:49 PM   #11
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FirstEnergy spokesman Todd Schneider said the company's computerized system for monitoring and controlling its transmission and generation system was working properly, but an alarm system to catch problems in the system was not.

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So that appears to be why it wasn't stopped earlier. But this wasn't the biggest blackout in America.
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