[43702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Washington DC power failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Tue Oct 23 19:55:31 2001
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:48:00 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIMEOBGFAA.deepak@ai.net> from "Deepak Jain" at Oct 23, 2001 04:27:49 PM
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Unnamed Administration sources reported that Deepak Jain said:
>
>
> I'm sure exploding manholes and the unpredictable outages are so much better
> for business.
>
> Aren't the explosions supposed to be drastically reduced during the
> fall/winter season?
>
> Regards,
>
> Deepak Jain
> AiNET
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> David Lesher
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: Washington DC power failures
>
>
>
> Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
> >
> >
> >
> > Washington DC power company PEPCO had more underground
> > fires at 17th and M streets NW. This has affected
> > some circuits out of carriers with facilities on
> > 1200 block of L street.
>
> Note that PEPCO has just started a major rebuild of the much
> damned system in Georgetown. It's supposed to take teraseconds to
> complete since the local merchants:
>
> Don't want any outages
>
> Don't want any street construction
> during the business day
>
> Don't want any noise or dirt...
Not really. Freeze|thaw cycle and conductive salty road drainage
are likely a good part of the picture.
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