[33456] in North American Network Operators' Group
California hits stage 3 power emergency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dalvenjah FoxFire)
Thu Jan 11 15:39:13 2001
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I haven't seen Sean post about this yet, so figured I would.
California's been getting hit with a nasty storm since yesterday that's
taken out some more major power plants; the CAISO declared a Stage 3
(rolling blackouts all around) power emergency just before 9 AM PST today.
See http://www.caiso.com/SystemStatus.html for pretty graphs.
Have you test-run your backup generators and transfer switches lately? }:>
-dalvenjah
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