It was 20 years ago on August 14th that the worst power blackout in North American history occurred. The worst n history was in Southern Brazil. It was more widespread than the Northeast blackout of 1965. 30 million people lost power.
A 3,500 megawatt power surge headed towards Ontario at 4:10 pm. More than 508 generating units at 265 power plants shut down during the outage.
In areas where the power remained off after nightfall, the Milky Way and orbiting artificial satellites became visible in metropolitan areas.
What a difference then to now - "complete strangers reached out to each other that day". The news articles cover the blackout weddings that day with the storyline that people then felt the blackout brought out the best in Toronto.
From the CBC article on the topic: "In an effort to recapture the energy of that night, Amlani celebrates the anniversary of the blackout by helping to organize an annual gathering. Acoustic musicians come out to play and the lights are doused "to recapture that energy, that sense of community."
"This year's celebration starts at Queen West and Callender streets in Parkdale at 8 p.m. and will be hosted by the Balkan folk band Lemon Bucket Orkestra."
Here's one of my Flexify manipulations - it seems to match what happened to the power grid.
