[29208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco power outages imminent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Wed Jun 14 19:30:12 2000
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
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In-Reply-To: <20000614150628.K6643@mail-abuse.org> from "J.D. Falk" at "Jun 14, 2000 03:06:28 pm"
To: jdfalk@mail-abuse.org (J.D. Falk)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:38:35 -0700 (MST)
Cc: jdfalk@cybernothing.org (J.D. Falk), nanog@nanog.org
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Think of it as an acid test of everyone's backup systems. :-)
More than one has failed due to a bad battery, out of feul, failures
in the UPS whilst the generator kicks in.. and, of course, because
there was no generator or ups to begin with..
> 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....
>
> --
> J.D. Falk "Laughter is the sound
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