In article <189ojvcl3lpvidf0cmrp320h7n64c2s7rg@4ax.com>, Charles D. Bohne
says...

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:56:40 GMT, Sir Arthur CBE Wholeflaffers ASA
<nospam@newsranger.com> wrote:

Yes, a gamma-ray WOULD do the trick!!

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/6534704.htm

Canada Blames Outage on Lightning Strike
Associated Press

TORONTO - Canadian officials said Thursday that a massive power
outage across the Northeast and parts of Canada was caused by a
lightning strike at the Niagara power plant.

What concerns me is that you buy this cover-story
hook, line and sinker; or should I say sucker.

Perhaps there was lightning, but if you understood
how power plants are designed, you would understand
that "lightning" or the debunkers ball-lightning
will NOT, I repeat NOT shut down thousands of 
miles of the grid system.  But it will give
useful idiots like you an easy explanation.
The FACTS are this: it was either a test of HAARP,
a gamma or neutron bomb, or some debunker
playing a trick on an unsuspecting population.
I pray it wasn't the debunkers, because if it was,
we can finally elimiate them off the face of
THIS PLANET EARTH!!!