Second day of rolling blackouts starts

Thu Jan 18 23:46:00 UTC 2001

> From: Kavi, Prabhu [mailto:prabhu_kavi at tenornetworks.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:25 PM
> To: 'Sean Donelan'; nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Second day of rolling blackouts starts

> > From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean at donelan.com]
> 
> > The US and Canada are still divided into essentially three 
> electrical
> > grids:  East, West and Texas.  Texas choose not to join the national
> > grids because they objected to some policies of the Federal Energy
> > Regulatory Commission.
> 
> And since some Texans think they live in a separate country,
> this makes sense.
> 
> Prabhu (who once spent a lot of time in Texas)

Texas *is* a separate country...

Roeland (who spent a lifetime, in TX, one year)