How the worst blackout in North America played out in Ontario | Globalnews.ca
TORONTO — At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the system supervisor in the control room overseeing Ontario’s electrical grid saw four alarms pop up on his computer screen. Then came 30,000 more. “It looks like we’ve had a disturbance,” Todd Parcey recalls saying, in what proved to be a massive understatement. He didn’t know at the time that problems in Ohio had caused 50 million people to lose…