[24284] in North American Network Operators' Group
Murphy comes to St. Louis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Jun 12 19:11:30 1999
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 18:10:04 -0500
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Murphy has been working overtime in St. Louis. A combination of several
sever thunderstorms and grid problems with AmerenUE, the local electric
power company, flash floods due to rain, and even a major water main
break in the business district; and ISP's are testing all parts of their
backup plans. At least four different St. Louis ISPs had problems at
some time in the last 24 hours for a variety of different reasons. UPS
failure, generator failure, flooding, and electrician error while doing
preventive maintenance.
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/pnhelp.nsf/ByDocID/F7F43108C9DD71408625678D00784D02
Postnet is located at 900 Walnut in St. Louis which is the main CLEC/carrier
hotel facility in downtown St. Louis. Other outages also occurred at a
university in mid-St. Louis county, and at ISPs in west county. Some ISPs
survived one wave of thunderstorms, only to succumb to a later wave.
And my personal experience, a direct lightning strike on a tree next to my
bedroom window. Anyone want to buy some used surge protectors? Only used
once :-)
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
