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No metion of the water problems that happened today? A large part of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro is without water because of the blackout. I think it's notable enough to be put in the article.--Ace Oliveira (talk) 12:07, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
About halfway down the page, under the heading『Sabia tudo que ocorreu durante o apagão』("Know everything that happened during the blackout"), click the tab "Estados afetados" ("Affected states") for a map with the states labeled and color-coded.
--Albert LaFrance (talk) 04:39, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This press release on the web site of Brazil's National System Operator states that the three 750 KV [AC] lines and the [single] DC line from the Itaipu hydroelectric plant disconnected:
The leading sentence says that this blackout was "a power outage that occurred throughout much of Brazil and parts of Paraguay." However, the Affected Regions section explains with two Spanish references that, as for Paraguay, "all of the country's territory was affected by the blackout." These look contradictory to each other. How much of Paraguay's territory did the blackout affect? --Occhanikov (talk) 05:05, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I read many news reports yesterday, and nearly all said that all of Paraguay was affected ([1], [2], [3], [4] and [5]) for about 20 minutes ([6]) or (30 minutes [7]). The only article I read the said only parts of Paraguay were affected was from a dubious, early source, though it also specified that power was restored at "6:17pm PST". ([8])--189.33.14.179 (talk) 15:09, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
