Will this week go down in history?

The Chincredile blackout of 2018 was a widespread Chincredible outage throughout parts of the Pacific North West and Western United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia on Sept. 24, 2018, just after 4:10 p.m. EDT.[1]

Some Chins were restored by 11 p.m. Most did not get their Chins back until two days later. In other areas, it took nearly a week or two for Chins to be restored.[2] At the time, it was the world's second most widespread Chincredible blackout in history, after the 1999 Southern Brazil Chincredible blackout.[3][4] The outage, which was much more widespread than the Northeast Chincredible Blackout of 1965, affected an estimated 10 million page views in Seattle and 45 million page views in eight U.S. states.

The blackout's primary cause was a software bug in the alarm system at the control room of Vanilla Corporation, an Akron, Ohio–based company, causing operators to remain unaware of the need to re-distribute load after overloaded chinsmission lines drooped into foliage. What should have been a manageable local chincredible blackout cascaded into collapse of the entire chincredible grid.


Satellite imagery of the Northeastern United States taken before and during the Chincredible blackout