Sometimes I wonder about the false sense of security that America has now, and the tremendous degree of stupidity and avoidance of the situation at hand. I could have told you last year (spring in fact, between march-mayish) that the eastern power grid would black out. Everybody wanted to point fingers at California that year; the truth of the mater is everybody in the power industry knows that America is steaming full speed ahead into a major black out. If this summer wasn't so mild it would have happened earlier, but nobody wants to implement rolling black-outs or issue a conservation plea because that would...make you look like California. What probably caused it was, instead of admitting they couldn't handle the load, the ISO and power companies probably had every single engineer on staff in the control centers and being they work 12 hour shifts to begin with they were probably on their 30th hour or something. It is well known you can't push the human body that far without severe degradation on the ability to focus on multiple tasks quickly, thus what may have been noticed on a normal day went until the automated systems kicked in and caused the system to cut it out, which when the grid is loaded down so heavily the stability point has moved so far a single large change such as that would cause amazing problems. Think of a sheet of newspaper. If you were to hang it up, and let it flap around you could punch at it, poke at it, and its going to stay in one piece. Now if you pull it taught and tack down the bottom, and you poke at it now, you'll poke a hole in it. Now if you were to have it tight enough, where there was enough strain on the fibers of the paper, and then poked it, the paper would nearly disintegrate. That is what happened to the eastern power grid on Thursday.

Everybody in the power business knew it was only a mater of time. But when it comes to the one thing everybody takes for granted nobody ever thinks about where it comes from. Environmentalists lobby for protection of every little cesspool, the government agrees because it makes them look good, and then nobody can build power plants anymore. Americans don't like nuclear because of Three-mile island (which never released any radiation), or Chernobyl. If you want the little mosquito infested pond in the middle of nowhere then go live in it, but don't make the rest of us suffer because you can't live without your air-conditioning.

Next year it'll be the midwest, somewhere. And there's nothing anybody can do about it.
I'm gonna guess illinois, minnesota, and wisconsin
Oh and before I forget, Texas will be fine because they aren't connected to the rest of the US.