The Blackout in Ohio

Ohio is part of the east coast grid, and during the black out, there were too few lines in ohio to handle electricity. Other places in the eastern grid misread this as ohio needing more electricity and began sending huge amounts of it towards the state. All that electricity bounced back, sort of like a massive tidal wave, an absolute wave. It's a huge wave. People in the control rooms of neighboring states started to get ervous. They knew the wave could causte serious problems. So in some places on the east coast, like new york, operators decided to manually shut down the system. The wires don't want to die, so they turn themselves off