Don't push the red button
Posted on : Thu, Mar 16, 2006
A long time ago in San Francisco, in the year 1999, there was a massive power outtage. Seems that a worker in a San Jose power relay station was upset at the power company for thier policy of on the job cocaine use - or lack thereof. So this guy decides to come back to the plant after hours, and throw open a massive breaker shutting down that substation. This lead to a higher than normal drain on all the surrounding stations and a cascading failure of them all. *poof* lights out for all of us.
The video below has nothing at all to do with that, but I thought I would mention the power outtage.