This may sound kind of silly... and straight out of the X Files
(and a little touch of Dale Gribble
...)
but I first thought the problem was Induced Currents from intense Solar Flares, causing transient surges and other fun things.
Believe this happened once before on the East Coast, and killed power for many hours across several states - including New York.
Feel free to fire away with straight jacket jokes if needed
Bjarney, does this sound feasable? (not the straight jacket
...)
And if possible, would this either cause or assist in a Sub Sync Resonance situation going really bad?
Possible to throw excessive levels of Reactive Currents (or true power currents even) between Transformers?
Would something like this also interrupt or otherwise knock off-line the PoCo's Carrier Current monitoring and / or control systems?
Just hanging out with Fox Mulder...
Scott35