[36450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Northern Viriginia Power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Apr 5 21:43:30 2001
Date: 5 Apr 2001 18:41:22 -0700
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Thu, 05 April 2001, John Starta wrote:
> The service interruption was apparently a result of a major regional power
> failure in Northern Virginia. I'm curious whether it was AOL or their
> providers who suffered from the power failure. I would expect AOL would
> have back-up power.
>
> http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3320700,00.html
Was anyone else effected in Northern Virginia? Other than a couple of
stories about AOL IM being down, I couldn't find any news coverage of
a major regional power outage in Northern Viriginia. The only story
I found was an electrical fire at Dullas Town Center near the Gap store.
VEPCO customer service didn't know of any power outages.
