[60635] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Power outage in North East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy R. McKee)
Thu Aug 14 18:04:11 2003
From: "Timothy R. McKee" <tim@baseworx.net>
To: "Geo." <georger@getinfo.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:03:39 -0400
In-Reply-To: <EKECJMGPAACGOMIGLJJDCEGNDFAA.georger@getinfo.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
You're looking at a major grid failure all across the NE tier. No telling
how long to manually reset all the blown breakers.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Geo.
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 16:46
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Power outage in North East
Cleveland power is out, northern parts of Akron Ohio as well.
Geo.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Damian Gerow
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:31 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Power outage in North East
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
