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Blacked out, and that pinch point in the power grid starting with one tree limb and then a second tree limb ultimately started a cascading rolling failure that shut down 265 power plants. 508 generating units. including 10 nuclear power stations. all of that happened in the span of eight minutes. by 4:15 p.m. outages had cascaded across ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, new york, vermont and parts of canada. parts of ontario blacked out. 50 million people without power, the largest outage in north a...

Some of the buildings, brian, pan up to the one that has a few lights on it. some of the buildings have sporadic lights, probably generators. look over to the left. if you can see the massive black shadow, that is 30 rockefeller center, almost not a light to be scene anywhere. >> the thing that caused all that chaos ten years ago tonight was a tree in ohio. a single overgrown tree branch in ohio. it tripped some circuit breakers in the area. that rerouted the power to a different nearby line tha...

Sporadic lights, probably generators. look over to the left. if you can see the massive black shadow, that is 30 rockefeller center, almost not a light to be scene anywhere. >> the thing that caused all that chaos ten years ago tonight was a tree in ohio. a single overgrown tree branch in ohio. it tripped some circuit breakers in the area. that rerouted the power to a different nearby line that in turn overheated itself and itself shrunk down into another tree tripping another circuit. the world...