[60623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Power outage in North East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (N. Richard Solis)
Thu Aug 14 17:15:11 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:43:09 -0400
From: "N. Richard Solis" <nrsolis@aol.net>
To: "Damian Gerow" <damian@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030814203049.GZ3043@sentex.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I just got off the phone with an old boss of mine. ;-) It would appear
that there is a large fire at a ConEd plant that has now caused a
cascading power outage in the Northeast. Some more plants may have
tripped offline because of the load they absorbed from the loss of the
other plant.
If I get more information, I'll post.
Damian Gerow wrote:
>
> Thus spake Joel Perez (jperez@numind.net) [14/08/03 16:27]:
> > Has anyone heard of a big Power outage in the North east?
> > I just got a call from one of my tech's in the GBLX bldg in Newark, NJ
> > at 1085 raymond and they are telling him that they lost power!
> > But I also got a call from AT&T in NY that they also lost Power!
>
> It looks like a rather large power outage -- we're in South Western
> Ontario,
> Canada, and power is out in Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, Hespler, and
> (I'm
> pretty sure) London as well. Can't say about Toronto.
>
> - Damian
>
