The different teams we had in state government came together as never before. regulators and organizations in adjacent states any warning of the mishap. The massive blackout on Aug. 14, 2003, five years ago, exposed many flaws in the nation’s fragile power grid. All rights reserved. Gibson overcame numerous childhood ailments—including rickets, asthma and a heart President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. Chief Security Officer & Chief Strategist at Security Mentor Inc. Some cyber-security experts Later that night, Blandy’s daughter Mary offered one of the family’s servants a large sum of money to help her get to France immediately. Beginning at 4:10 p.m. Are they ready for the next outage?Those questions went viral online this past week, with a I remember feeling and seeing similar things in Lansing, Michigan. Federal and industry regulators investigating what triggered Thursday's Northeast blackout have narrowed their search to three as yet unspecified transmission lines near Cleveland.
and Ontario, Canada.
Fifty million people were affected, including residents of Authorities soon calmed the fears of jittery Americans that terrorists may have been responsible for the blackout, but they were initially unable to determine the cause of the massive outage.
Ohio.
Report Website. Over the past decade Michigan has participated in Cyberstorm exercises and National Level exercises to test our cyber defense and response plans. Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Forked River, N.J., shuts down automatically because of power fluctuations on the grid.— 4:17 p.m. Vulnerabilities and Policy Issues for Congress. Some areas remained without power for days.Utility experts said that the U.S. power grid system is 30 Ten years later And Teri Takai was also there most of the blackout weekend. She moved on to be the CIO of California and is currently the You never know where those around you will end up some day. All market data delayed 20 minutes. "— 3:06 p.m. FirstEnergy's Chamberlin-Harding power transmission line, a 345-kilovolt power line in northeastern Ohio, trips. "It was like taking a light switch and turning it off," says Jim Majer, commissioner of Cleveland Public Power. From its inception, the Great War was by no means confined to the European continent; in the Far East, two rival nations, Japan and China, sought to find their © 2020 A&E Television Networks, LLC. By 4:30 p.m., most homes, businesses, and medical facilities were without What began as a handful of commonplace, summertime "trips" — brief transmission line shutdowns, usually due to ebbing voltage caused by anything from a bird hitting the lines to a power overload — set off the biggest outage in U.S. history. But I did not have a wedding the next day.Getting a bit more personal, I remember our Michigan government’s response to unfolding events that day. All market data delayed 20 minutes. All Rights Reserved. In November of that year, I wrote this When I think back ten years to the Blackout of 2003, my mind inevitably goes to the people involved.
On August 14, 2003, an enormous electrical blackout struck the Northeast and upper Midwest of the United States and a large part of Western Ontario, Canada, leaving about (or “aboot” in the Great White North) 55 million people without electricity for … ’03 Blackout Is Recalled, Amid Lessons Learned. We have more tabletop exercises planned moving forward.And yes, there will be other emergencies. He is leading the development and implementation of Security Mentor’s industry-leading cyber training, consulting and workshops for end users, managers and executives in the public and private sectors. All rights reserved. Even though Japan’s War Council, urged by Emperor Hirohito, had already submitted a formal declaration of surrender to the Allies, via ambassadors, On August 14, 1971, St. Louis Cardinals ace Bob Gibson throws the first no-hitter of his storied career. The company hasn't reported a cause, but the outage put extra strain on FirstEnergy's Hanna-Juniper line, the next to go dark.— 3:32 p.m. to behave strangely, forcing administrators On August 14, 2003, the biggest electrical outage in North American The 2003 blackout tested emergency procedures and training for the entire industry − and required everyone, including consumers to work together to bring power back online to the province safely and quickly. 3 coal-fired power plant near Grand Haven, Mich., trips off.— 4:10 p.m. A 345-kilovolt line known as Hampton-Thetford, in Michigan's thumb region, trips.— 4:10 p.m. A 345-kilovolt line known as Oneida-Majestic, in southeast Michigan, trips.— 4:11 p.m. Orion Avon Lake Unit 9, a coal-fired power plant in Avon Lake, Ohio, trips.— 4:11 p.m. A transmission line running along the Lake Erie shore to the Davis-Besse nuclear plant near Toledo, Ohio, trips.— 4:11 p.m. A transmission line in northwest Ohio connecting Midway, Lemoyne and Foster substations trips.— 4:11 p.m. Ms. Takai was the former Michigan Chief Information Officer (CIO).
lines failed. A major outage knocked out power across the eastern United States and parts of Canada on August 14, 2003.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, by "It was like a heart attack. The Perry Unit 1 nuclear reactor in Perry, Ohio, shuts down automatically after losing power.— 4:11 p.m. New York Transformed. ET, 21 power plants shut down in just three minutes. An attempt to use a drill on that August day 12 years ago blew a fuse—or so I thought. The blackout changed that – probably the most important result of the post mortem, he said. The massive blackout on Aug. 14, 2003, five years ago, exposed many flaws in the nation’s fragile power grid. ET, 21 power plants shut down in just three minutes. A Brief History. The blackout of 2003 started in facilities owned and "It was a hopscotch event, not a big cascading domino effect," says Sean O'Leary, chief executive of Genscape, a company that monitors electric transmissions.— 4:09 p.m. The Working Groups focused on the draft- Also, our new technology team grew up fast during that emergency.I remember that MSP Captain John Ort, who normally would have directed our statewide response at the SEOC, was in Mexico at the time, so Inspector Kristie Etue did a great job leading us during that emergency.
served as a wake-up call.