Great Blackout of '03

The oughts have it. Terrorism, SARS, West Nile virus, and now blackouts. As Boston.com observed, lasty night's outages affected a 9,300-square-mile area populated by 50 million people. That's twice as many people and landmass as the great 1965 blackout, which was also caused by one of these "rolling grid" failures. Haven't the engineers learned anything?

 Posted by glenn