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As an engineer in the energy business, we have often joked that a few guys with a high powered rifle could take down the grid. Blow out a few transformers in the right place and cause the type of rolling blackouts that we say in the Northwest.

That being said, in my home state of Nebraska, losing power for a few days or weeks would probably result in a mini baby boom.

[_Jim]

Blow out a few transformers in the right place and

... a proper operating transmission operator would re-route 'power flows' ... with 'FirstEnergy' - blind in their control room (we're probably going to find out these were *recurring* issues with them) to the active situation - yes, you could wreak some havoc ... I suspect that you couldn't take down the grid if you wanted to in an area operated by PJM or AEP - the automatic curtailments with load shedding relays, manual shedding would eventually 'island' that portion of a troublesome system ...