[29171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Detroit Power Failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Eklund)
Wed Jun 14 05:30:44 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 05:27:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Eklund <ac4070@wayne.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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> 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.
I'm sitting in the middle of this problem. Our computer center is
currently running on a DPL generator (since about 1pm yesterday). As of
right now no resolution in sight. Our backbone network is half powered
down at the moment. Last I heard they said that we would have power by
3am (2.5 hours ago).
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