[60629] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Power outage in North East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (McBurnett, Jim)
Thu Aug 14 17:39:23 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:57:22 -0400
From: "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com>
To: "Patrick Muldoon" <doon@inoc.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
FROM CNN website
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck several =
large cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.=20
Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, =
Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; and Ottawa, Ontario. The =
power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m.=20
Much of Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street were shut down, including all =
area airports and the Long Island Railroad. The airports were operating =
on back-up power and operations were reported to be normal, officials =
said.=20
The New York City Police Department said they were trying to determine =
what happened. A Con Edison transformer on East 14th Street in Manhattan =
was afire, CNN learned.=20
Thousands of people could be seen leaving buildings and walking into the =
streets. New York subways were reported stopped and people were trapped =
in the cars.=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Muldoon [mailto:doon@inoc.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:34 PM
To: Joel Perez; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Power outage in North East
On Thursday 14 August 2003 04:23 pm, Joel Perez wrote:
> 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!
Power is flakier then all heck here in Albany, NY. Outages / major =
brown=20
outs. We are running on Generator here since it is way cleaner power at =
the=20
moment.
--=20
Patrick Muldoon
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