How Did The Great Blackout Affect New York City

In 1965 NYC got the title for the biggest blackout in History. The blackout left people with many different emotions. Some of the cities, people were scared that they were under an attack because of the recent speaking of war. New York City was in the darkness for 13 hours. The transportation provided by the city such as busses and subways was stopped. Cities relied on the moon to give off light while others searched for light in candles and flashlights. This night lead people to worry on uprising violence that may bring in the night. Thankfully, this night was patrolled and had not seen violence. This blackout did not only affect New York, it affected other states as well. Such as, Few parts of Canada, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and more. The very last city with power on was in the dark for 16 hours. The Great Blackout was caused from a 230 - kilovolt transmission line. After one line went out not far behind the others soon did too. “The line failures caused what is known as a cascade”. (Errol . www.observer.com) One likely cause of the line outage was that this night the power lines were being put into max use. “This caused all
“With over half a dozen states included in this blackout happening at the Sir Adam Beck Station” (Steven. www.learningblog.com) The blackout was not universal. This means that some of the state's neighborhoods were still lit up in some of its areas. Some say that the areas that were not affected were only in light because they were connected to a different power plant. Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec Were also in the dark this night. Mount Weather Emergency were the first people to catch glimpse of this blackout. Although they soon did get some news on what was happening that night when a group in Fort Erie got connection to a T.V. broadcast from a backup generator that was supposed to only be used during transmission purposes