| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Preface: Trading Tales -- 1. From Accidents to Disaster -- 2. Origins of a Grid, Part 1 -- 3. The Grid Crumbles -- 4. Origins of a Grid, Part 2 -- 5. The Grid Rebuilt -- 6. The Grid and the Village -- Afterword: A Disaster Timeline |
| Summary |
"In January 1998 a massive ice storm descended on New York, New England, and eastern Canada. It crushed power grids from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic, forcing thousands of people into public shelters and leaving millions of others in their homes without electricity. In this book Stephen Doheny Farina presents an insider's account of these events, describing the destruction of the electric network in his own village and the emergence of the face-to-face interactions that took its place." |
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This book focuses on electric grids and tells the stories about two villages separated by time, connected by proximity, and united by the challenges of maintaining a community under duress. It provides a glimpse of what it took to build the kind of grids that made America, the grids which connect people to one another, and is told through the experiences of some of the people who sacrificed the most to build the grids |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed September 30, 2015) |
| Subject |
Electric power distribution -- New York (State) -- Cold weather conditions
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Electric power failures -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- Potsdam Region -- Case studies
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Ice storms -- New York (State) -- Saint Lawrence County -- History
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NATURE -- Natural Disasters.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
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NATURE -- Essays.
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Ice storms
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Manners and customs
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Potsdam Region (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Potsdam (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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| Subject |
New York (State)
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New York (State) -- Potsdam
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New York (State) -- Saint Lawrence County
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300133820 |
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0300133820 |
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1281722979 |
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9781281722973 |
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9786611722975 |
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6611722971 |
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