Introduction
Blackout!
Figure I-1 The big blackout of 2003. A bright full moon over a darkened New York City skyline during the blackout that started Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003, and affected 80,000 square miles in the eastern United States and Canada. (Source: Bob Gomel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Thursday, August 14, 2003
It was one of those muggy New York City summer days that began like all the others. But it ended in a way that was an eerie precursor of the electric-power problems that would have major impacts on New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and remain an ominous threat to all of us who live in a modern industrialized ...
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