[60649] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dominic J. Eidson)
Thu Aug 14 19:04:05 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:28:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0308141649360.59758-100000@richard2.pil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 up@3.am wrote:
> >From CNN:
>
> NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck several large
> cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.
>
> 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.
The rest:
State officials said the Niagara-Mohawk power grid was overloaded. The
grid provides power for New York and stretches into Canada. The
officials said the outage is a natural occurrence and not related to
terrorism.
...
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed the outage was not related to
terrorism or an accident.
"The good news is, Con Ed's facilities have shut down automatically,
which they're programmed to do," he said. "No damage was done to the
Con-Ed facility."
(The facillity they're referencing, is the Transformer station on 14th
St.)
- d.
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Dominic J. Eidson
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