You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and maybe it's when I had a hand in.

I'm Tammy Walker and I produce podcasts for the BBC.

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podcast we've got on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me

Eva Runsman. I'm taking you back to the 13th of March 1989 to Canada where millions of people in

the province of Quebec are waking up. It's a crisp and cold morning but not a

single light heater or television will be switched on

as people get ready for work as there is no power. All those Quebecers still in

bed and not a single one aware that in the early hours of that morning the

state's electricity network had collapsed and it was all caused by a force triggered

150 million kilometers away.

I am preparing to go to work and we were listening to the radio and suddenly there is an announcement and Quebec is without electricity and they have no idea what's going on.

I look at my husband and I said, oh, I just hope that it's my magnetic story. my tasked with monitoring how Earth's forces interact.

She was based at the Geomagnetic Observatory in Ottawa,

more than 1,000 kilometers away from where the blackout began

and still with her lights on.

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