Top 10 WORST 20th Century POWER OUTAGES

You never miss the power until it’s gone. Power outages are catastrophic when they’re lengthy or widespread — some of the largest blackouts of the 20th century affected millions of people and cost millions of dollars to restore. Here they are: →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenzn... → → GET A T-SHIRT - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/toptenz →Top 10 Objects That Were Clearly Invented Just to Annoy Physics:    • Top 10 Objects That Were Clearly Invented ...   →Simon's VLOG:    / @simonwvlogs   Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Brand new videos 7 days a week! Videos are published at 6pm EST every day! Subscribe to our Facebook:   / toptenz   Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 Alarming Pictures of Environmental DEVASTATION    • Top 10 PHOTOS of Environmental DEVASTATION   Top 10 Most Dangerous Roads in the World    • Video   Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/10-largest-20t... Coming up: 10. The 1998 Blackout of Quebec 9. North East American Blackout of 1965 8. San Francisco Blackout of 1998 7. Southern Brazil Blackout of 1999 6. 1999 Blackout in France 5. Taiwan Blackout of 1999 4. 1998 Auckland Power Crisis 3. Hurricane Opal Blackout of 1995 2. The 2003 Blackouts of Western North America 1. 1996 West Coast Blackout Source/Further reading: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montrea... http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/defa... http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hi... http://blackout.gmu.edu/events/tl1965... http://www.sfmuseum.net/alm/outage.html http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/09/us/... http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/psdpc/doc... http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/12/wor... http://www.air-worldwide.com/Publicat... http://r203-2.crt.ntust.edu.tw/www/in... http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10... https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00... http://www.cnn.com/US/9510/opal/10-05... http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrh... http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/... http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-s... http://www.nwcouncil.org/history/blac... http://abcnews.go.com/US/electrical-w...