[36457] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Northern Viriginia Power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Fri Apr 6 09:57:06 2001
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 09:44:12 -0400
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com>
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To: Ronan Mullally <ronan@iol.ie>, nanog@merit.edu
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My house in Reston showed initial power loss at 12:06pm, fully restored
by 13:45.
The construction of the Fairfax County Parkway segment by the
Reston Town Center is probably the culprit. In recent days
I have seen work done to the main distribution lines that go
through/across that segment.
KL
Ronan Mullally wrote:
>
> On 5 Apr 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> >From what I've heard it was a crane striking a major power line
> at around 2pm EST.
>
> -Ronan
