Blogging the blackout backstory
The story as changed from lightning striking a generating facility in Canada to a power surge in NYC to problems in Cleveland. Al-Muhajabah did some digging into FirstEnergy Corp, the power company that seems to be the source of the problem and came up with a history that's sordid but sadly, rather typical.
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