[40223] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Northern VA - Its not a worm, just Mother Nature
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Stewart)
Fri Aug 3 16:59:20 2001
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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:58:44 -0400
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From: Dave Stewart <dbs@ntrnet.net>
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At 04:47 PM 8/3/2001, Karl wrote:
>I don't mean to imply that this Friday afternoon, Northern-VA outage is
>directly related to the Florida hurricane, but -- certainly -- the heat,
>humidity, and overwhelming use of air-conditioners can be considered
>climactic fallout.
Florida hurricane?
Unless Barry's strengthened a LOT in the past few hours (and NHC says he
hasn't), he's not a hurricane... barely a tropical storm.
Sure, he's dumping rain across parts of FL... but let's not get the cart
before the horse.