[60660] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Power outage in North East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Baranski)
Thu Aug 14 19:54:02 2003
From: "Terry Baranski" <tbaranski@mail.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:53:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: <00df01c362a5$e396e9b0$e2e8b1d8@adam>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
CNN has mentioned several times the theory that the Blaster worm
potentially had something to do with this.
No joke.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Adam Debus
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:52 PM
> To: Damian Gerow; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Power outage in North East
>
>
>
> 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,
> > > 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
> >
>
