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Re: [STORMREPORTS] Re: Lightning strike blamed in eastern power outage

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 20:52:11 EDT

Yes -- NWS rebuttal on MSNBC:

"Finally... <http://www.msnbc.com/news/952578.asp?0cv=CA01>MSNBC reports:
"The Canadian defense ministers office, however,
told NBC News that the report was wrong, while the National Weather Service
said there
was no lightning within hundreds of miles of the Niagara area."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/952578.asp?0cv=CA01

At 08:37 PM 8/14/2003 -0400, Eric Greenberg wrote:

>It was reported on MSNBC almost 1/2 hour ago that this was erroneous report
>and was NOT true. In fact, the Prime Minister is trying to figure out who
>said this, but it wasn't him. They are still trying to determine the
>cause, but are generally blaming the extreme loading and SOME equipment
>failure.
>
>Eric - About 10 miles south of the blackout area in NJ (lucky this time!!) 

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