Right so I've actually been tracking this for a while now and the pattern is hard to ignore once you notice it. The 2019 New York blackout hit something like 36 hours before the Mueller report conclusions were being discussed in the Senate. Coincidence? Maybe. But then you stack it with the UK grid incident in August 2019 which knocked out large parts of the south, and that happened two days before Boris announced the prorogation of Parliament. Nobody really joined those dots at the time.
My thinking is that these aren't necessarily caused by anything sinister but they do function as attention distractors. Doesn't matter if its accidental or deliberate, the effect is identical. Public focus fragments, news cycles pile up, the big announcement gets buried under infrastructure crisis coverage.
Interested if anyone has a decent list compiled of these correlation points because anecdotal matching only gets you so far. Would be worth doing a proper timeline analysis rather than just vibes-based pattern recognition which is where most of this stuff falls down and loses credibility.