Blackout

So, how about the black-out, eh? Sounds like pretty much the same sort of cascading failure as 1965. One power station gets overloaded and fails. This overloads all the ones around it and they fail. It snowballs and soon everything between New York City and the hydroelectic dams near James Bay goes black. Considering how it happened again in 1977 you'd think they'd have this problem fixed by now.