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Re: San Francisco power outages imminent

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lucifer@lightbearer.com)
Wed Jun 14 18:35:51 2000

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In-Reply-To: <20000614150139.A25836@ua1.magitech.org> from Jason Legate at "Jun
 14, 2000 03:01:40 pm"
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Jason Legate wrote:
> I heard from some that the outages would begin around 15:00 PDT.  
> Apparantly it was on the radio this afternoon.

And, as of 15:05, at least one major data center has gone off-grid and
switched to generators... (Name withheld to allow their own folks to say
it, since it's not a disruption of service)

Less confirmable reports of outages in Cupertino, and a number of buildings
voluntarily off-grid in downtown SJ, ranging up to South SF.
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