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Blackouts Stun Cities Across Northeast, Midwest and Canada

Blackouts swept across the Northeast, Great Lakes and eastern Canada Thursday afternoon, but the cause was still unclear late in the day. National news reports were focused on an alleged fire at a Consolidated Edison Co. (ConEd) power plant in New York City and an overload on Niagara Mohawk’s (NiMo) power grid in Upstate New York as potential causes for the widespread outages.

August 15, 2003