I understand bad things can ripple through the grid in highly interconnected places like the American North East, extending all the way to Ontario. We have had 2 of those blackouts that wiped out that whole corridor. There was also one that really only got New York.
I do wonder how that sort of thing would affect a place at the end of the line like Ft Myers/Naples.
Logic says that we have 2 generating stations right here and I imagine we end up exporting power to other places but we should have enough capacity to serve the local customers "offline". There are not many other grid nodes near us and we are not really in the direct path to anywhere.
The open question is how much can be done manually, if the switching computer interface was down. (hacked or whatever)
