[29165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Detroit Power Failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Tue Jun 13 23:40:36 2000
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 20:35:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@employees.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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There are two airports in Detroit, Detroit City Airport (DET, a smallish
airport in town that Pro Air flies out of) and Detroit Metro Airport (DTW,
the Northwest hub). The only reports that I have seen indicate that the
problems were limited to DET.
Ed
On 13 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> The city of Detroit, Wayne County, Wayne State University, Redford
> and Livonia were hit by the power failure at 12:45pm. Detroit airport
> is operating on emergency power. Detroit Public Lighting's computer
> center also lost power. DPL is hooking up portable generators to its
> computer center so it can then determine the exent of the outage and
> when it will be repaired.
>
> Associated Press reports repeated calls to DPL resulted in a busy signal.
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