Evidence of Leading Edge of Olduvai Cliff?

The power outage of last year might have been a fluke. Excrement occurs. Especially stressed systems, operating near capacity.
Now only about a year later, I just heard on the radio that 280,000 electric power customers in Ohio are without electricity, during some of the worst weather for this time of year in recent memory.
I searched the major news sites, and can’t find an URL, even on NPR, where I just heard the story. Here’s an earlier story on the winter conditions of the area.