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Re: Cleveland outage (Warning: operational content)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Fri Jan 14 00:50:08 2000

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:33:11 -0500 (EST)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, rl5lobos@en.com
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Steve Sobol wrote:

> 
> http://www.cleveland.com/news/sreports/flood
> 
> A 36" pipe burst yesterday afternoon, releasing over 25 gallons of
> water into an area covering several city blocks.

Personally, I don't consider 25 gallons of water in an outdoors setting to
be a flood.  Judging from the picture (and the text on the page) there's a
whole bunch of zeros missing from the 25.  Perhaps it was 25 gallons per
some small unit of time?

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