Yes, the Niagra Mohawk power and another power plant near Ottawa started it all ... Yep, Canada is trying to break free from its dependancy on the United Stated so they can seek admission as a colony of France ... at least Quebec ... but, it backfired terribly ...
Seriously, the brain-dead idiots are trying to tell us how computer viruses have been ruled out ... this is a straw-man claim in reverse ... no power plant is run by computers, especially nuclear plants ... computers are only used for information, analysis, and data recording. The system just has kinks in it ... not reviewed as often as it needs ... and so the northeast grid just had a domino effect much as the outages in 1977 and 1965. It will take a couple of days to know the real cause and have power restored ...
The goofy experts are already saying that there is no way this is an act of terrorism ... and they may be right ... BUT, they are speaking way too soon, as there is no way they can really know until the event has had a root cause analysis, which will take time ... ALSO ... I heard them spewing some information that I know is BS ... so, I also sense something funky here ... having been in the power engineering business for 25 years, I will not be surprised if this turns out to be an attack ... perhaps a test attack to learn how to do this really big across the USA and Canada ... I hope I am wrong. - Jim W.