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This actually happened at least once before, back in, IIRC, the 1970s.
A power plant had to shut down for some reason and this caused the load to be shunted onto other power lines. Unfortunately this exceeded their allowable load, causing them to shut down, shunting the power again and the problems cascaded over a large portion of the eastern seaboard of the USA.
I believe it was mentioned in James Burke's Connections book.
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