re: #201 sagehen

Could have been worse… about 6 or 7 years ago, a bird got stuck in a wire in Ohio and the cascading failures knocked out power to almost 100 million people in 15 states (for three days). Iraqis were laughing at us.

I was in Ohio when that happened. And I remember what seemed like a quarter of the US and Canada was without power and the national headlines were “Brave New Yorkers Endure Power Outage.”

(Maybe I’m getting a mild case of 9/11 fatigue syndrome. No disrespect.)