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Everything was backwards when Roy Teal, system supervisor at the Ontario Hydro control centre at Richview substation near Malton, examined instruments(...)
Everything was backwards when Roy Teal, system supervisor at the Ontario Hydro control centre at Richview substation near Malton, examined instruments(...)

Everything was backwards when Roy Teal, system supervisor at the Ontario Hydro control centre at Richview substation near Malton, examined instruments(...)

Date11/10/1965
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Original Toronto Star caption: Everything was backwards when Roy Teal; system supervisor at the Ontario Hydro control centre at Richview substation near Malton; examined instruments last night. U.S. generated power had flashed wrong way through Cornwall; circled through Southern Ontario and back through Niagara Falls. Normal flow is reverse surge disrupted system after system; shot down eastern seaboard to Florida; west to Texas and Montana. Whole East blacked out (see map). Ontario power was drained; even tho' grid system was to prevent this.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0008831F
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