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Roland Perry wrote:
In article , David H Wild
writes
I've not seen anything that suggested that the second failure was a
consequence of the first.
The National Grid press release says that the second fault was "the
backup failing". So I suppose the cable that failed after 7 seconds was
already broken, but no-one had noticed. Until it came to be used.
Whether you regard that failure as something you might describe as a
"consequence" of being put into use after the first fault or not, is
merely playing with words.
It's still very different from what happened in North America. Although New
York itself had power back on in less than a day, some places were without
power for two or three days.
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