[JerseyHighlander]

I have no answer, however I saw this interesting link today:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113932165856461159137.000455fd4a9e930f6b943

North American Outage Maps
Many electric utility companies provide live customer outage maps on the web.
Public · Open Collaboration

[Right Wing Assault]

They don’t seem to be maintaining those maps very well.