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help feed south africa s booming city. africa want to get jones good to have you with us and was starting with a fall out from the powerful cycling that hit mozambique killing hundreds of people and leaving a trail of destruction across ways of south east africa the damage to mozambique and infrastructure including pylons that carry power to neighboring countries may take weeks this has exacerbated rolling power outages in south africa where state owned utility eskom is struggling to bring faulty generating units back online. cold beer sorry you re out of luck there s been no electricity for hours. thankfully the kitchen has gas burners and there s still some daylight. for this small johannesburg restaurant it s a matter of life and death some days there are numerous power cuts they ve already thrown away five hundred euros worth of meat and bags of ice can only function so
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blacked out, and that pinch point in the power grid starting with one tree limb and then a second tree limb ultimately started a cascading rolling failure that shut down 265 power plants. 508 generating units. including 10 nuclear power stations. all of that happened in the span of eight minutes. by 4:15 p.m. outages had cascaded across ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, new york, vermont and parts of canada. parts of ontario blacked out. 50 million people without power, the largest outage in north american history. power was not fully restored for 48 hours. all because of what started with that one tree. it became a huge problem what happened with that one tree because of the shocking vulnerability of this electrical grid that we ve got. which we started building in the 1800s with wires and wooden poles. ten years after that giant blackout of the whole northeast,
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started a cascading rolling failure that shut down 265 power plants. 508 generating units. including 10 nuclear power stations. all of that happened in the span of eight minutes. by 4:15 p.m. outages had cascaded across ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, new york, vermont and parts of canada. parts of ontario blacked out. 50 million people without power, the largest outage in north american history. power was not fully restored for 48 hours. all because of what started with that one tree. it became a huge problem what happened with that one tree because of the shocking vulnerability of this electrical grid that we ve got. which we started building in the 1800s with wires and wooden poles. ten years after that giant blackout of the whole northeast, question, of course, is, could
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second tree limb ultimately started a cascading rolling failure that shut down 265 power plants. 508 generating units. including 10 nuclear power stations. all of that happened in the span of eight minutes. by 4:15 p.m. outages had cascaded across ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, new york, vermont and parts of canada. parts of ontario blacked out. 50 million people without power, the largest outage in north american history. power was not fully restored for 48 hours. all because of what started with that one tree. it became a huge problem what happened with that one tree because of the shocking vulnerability of this electrical grid that we ve got. which we started building in the 1800s with wires and wooden poles. ten years after that giant blackout of the whole northeast, question, of course, is, could it happen again?
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