[60646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Power outage in North East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Kamantauskas)
Thu Aug 14 18:48:04 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:52:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Kamantauskas <alexk@tugger.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00df01c362a5$e396e9b0$e2e8b1d8@adam>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From MSNBC:
Other affected cities included Buffalo, Albany and Syracuse, N.Y.;
Hartford, Conn.; Lansing and many other smaller cities in Michigan; Akron
and Toledo, Ohio; and Ottawa and Montreal in Ontario.
Washington and the federal government were not affected Neither were much
of New England =97 including all of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New
Hampshire, southern Vermont and eastern Connecticut =97 and other areas of
Canada, including Quebec City.
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Adam Debus wrote:
>
> At the moment the power outage encompasses:
>
> New York City
> Boston
> Philadelphia
> Detroit
> Toronto
> Ottowa
>
> and various and sundry smaller cities.
>
> Check your local news outlet for more details.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam Debus
> Linux Certified Professional, Linux Certified Administrator #447641
> Network Engineer, ReachONE Internet
> adam@reachone.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Damian Gerow" <damian@sentex.net>
> To: <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:30 PM
> 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, N=
J
> > > 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
> >
>
--=20
/ak
