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Article: Huge power blackout from New York to Detroit and into Canada; officials say no sign of terrorism
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- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- August 14, 2003
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The biggest power blackout in history hit steamy U.S. and Canadian
cities Thursday, stranding people in subways, closing nuclear power
plants in Ohio and New York state and choking streets with workers
driven from stifling offices.
Officials were looking at a power transmission problem from Canada
as the most likely cause, said a spokeswoman for New York Gov. George
Pataki. There was no sign of terrorism, officials in New York and
Washington agreed.
The blackouts robbed power for millions of people in a broad swath
of the U.S. Northeast _ stretching west to Ohio and Michigan _ and
in southern Canadian cities, starting shortly after 4 p.m. EDT (20:00
GMT). In Toronto, ...