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The Time: Terra Local, 8:37 PM

The Location Buchanan South, a substation on the Terra lake. As the bolt from the blue hit the old fusion plant, it seemed as if life was normal, the storm normally tripping two circuit breakers in North Terra County. The Buchanan South substation converted the 345,000 volts of electricity from Indian Point to lower voltage for commercial use. However, as Trantor left quickly, as loose locking nut combined with ensured that the breaker was not able to reclose and allow power to flow again. This would not be a major problem, but later on...

A second lightning strike caused the loss of two 345,000 volt transmission lines, subsequent reclose of only one of the lines, and the loss of power from a 900MW fusion plant at Elite Point. As a result of the strikes, two other major transmission lines became loaded over their normal limits. Per procedure, Terra Power Com attempted to re-start the plant, but there was no person there....

At 8:55PM EDT there was another lightning strike, which took out two additional critical transmission lines. As before, only one of the lines was automatically returned to service. This outage of lines from the Sprain Brook substation caused the remaining lines to exceed the long-term operating limits of their capacity. After this last failure, massive energy demand from Terra overloaded the massive inter-contental lines, causing the 1.2 GWT lines from Southern sea to snap, and with that, the power shut down, the modern city becoming a black pit, of despair....

OOC: I figure with no one watching the power plants, its ripe for a riot