[143968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Aug 24 13:10:05 2011
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:30:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E54F4A8.8010508@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "JC Dill" <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
> On 23/08/11 3:13 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> > A. Our structures aren't built to seismic zone standards. Our
> > construction workers aren't familiar with*how* to build to seismic
> > zone standards. We don't secure equipment inside our buildings to
> > seismic zone standards.
>
> They should be.
> They should be.
> You should.
>
> Earthquakes can happen anywhere. There's no excuse to fail to
> build/secure to earthquake standards.
There's a reason NEBS is so strict; there's a reason NEBS is so expensive.
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
