Northeast Blackout > i dont understand something....

i dont understand something....

Buffalo NY seems to be in the middle of the affected area. As you see I have power. It seems to be about 50% affected region wide. It has to do with the grid ripple effect. If a plant goes down, others try to compensate, if the draw is too great they overload, and it goes on rippling, But if a local engineer/technician sees the problem, he can in some cases "isolate" his plant to a local grid, thus preventing overload and shutdown, at the same time continue to provide power to his local sub-grid...hope that is simple enough...

reply to pcdebb
Erie PA is listed on CNN's map of affected cities. Here, we had brownouts for about 2 hours, yet Crawford county south of us (not on CNN's map) had a total blackout. I'm sure a lot of the surrounding areas all over were affected also, not just in my region
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It's pitch black here in White Plains, a suburb of New York City. So I'm assuming surrounding areas in most of those cities are also affected. However, I hear parts of Long Island are starting to get their power back...go figure. My area was one of the last to get broadband, and I bet we'll be the last ones to get restored power too haha.

Well thats an easy one.... LI can isolate itself from the rest of NY pretty easily, and use its own generation to at least partially get back up.
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The half of New Jersey supplied by JCP&L did not lose power. We did not lose power in any of the NY black outs. We must get power from PA or some thing.