Lights out.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Lights Out: On August 14, the worst blackout A complete loss of power. See brownout. in American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of history forced thousands of people to stream across New York's Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Bridge, vehicular suspension bridge, New York City, southernmost of the bridges across the East River, between lower Manhattan and Brooklyn; built 1869–83. The achievement of J. A. Roebling and his son W. A. Roebling, it has a span of 1,595. to get home from work without subways (which run on electricity). The blackout cut power to millions of homes and businesses on the East Coast, in the Midwest, and parts of Canada, and sparked debates about how to safeguard America's aging power grid from future shutdowns. |
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