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In OTL the Great North East Blackout of 2003 occured in the middle of summer, greatly limiting it's impact. However, the North American Power Grid was a ticking time bomb, and the blackout would've happened eventually anyway. So, what if a blackout on the same scale as the Great North East, leaving millions of people without power for days, had occured durring the winter, when the lack of electric heat could very well have killed people? How high would the casaulty figures have been? What would be the political fallout compared to OTL?
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