I heard on Vermont Public Radio today, that one reason why VT was not effected was because the "switching" systems worked correctly here and did not in the other areas. From what they said, when one segment goes down, the other segments should shut off the down segment and resume. It seems that many of the switching systems failed, shutting down the entire grid! Yikes. I think maybe Vermont was not the only state prepared and working. We had a connection to NY's power grid, but disconnected when the trouble set in......at least that is what they said on VPR.

Yea Vermont!