[29200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco power outages imminent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Wed Jun 14 18:20:51 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:06:28 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
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On 06/14/00, "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> wrote:
> Word is they're not capable of handling the current demand (it
> is the second day of what feels like a serious heat wave, with
> temperatures over 90 degrees all over the Bay Area), and power
> may be shut off on a rotating basis, a block or a few blocks at
> a time, if the load cannot be reduced.
Okay, just received word that they're doing it: rolling black-
outs for 90 minutes at a time, around the Bay Area (not just in
the city.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2000/06/14/power.DTL
It'll be interesting to see what kind of outages this causes;
for one thing, Sean's power may go out.
If power goes out in the NOC and there's nobody around to
monitor it....
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