Commercial AC power outage - restore Voltage ?

[Rob Seastrom]

Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org> writes:

> the first big NYC blackout too much much longer to recover
> precisely because of the lack of sectionalizing relays
> which caused the recovery areas to be far larger than 
> could be handled easily without whacking the crap out of
> the transmission grid.

The 1965 one?  Big Allis couldn't take full nameplate load in
one step?  I'd be asking for my money back... or wasn't it online yet?  :)

-r