[7177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Power outage in San Francisco
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed Jan 22 18:23:25 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:05:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM-RU.1.0.853965882.rob@solar.rjl.com>
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Rob Liebschutz wrote:
> slowly as we pull in power feeds from mobile generators. The China
> Basin complex where we are located has been quite a scene, with cables
> running out the to roof and down the side of the building to
> generators running in the courtyard below.
Any photos on the web?
> There's been alot of
> cooperation amoungst providers with Sprint and TCG sharing spare power
> capacity on the generators and pulling wires to other providers in the
> building. MFS has also been helping their customers with power
> restoral. MCI has a big mobile generator in the courtyard as well.
> The power for the emergency lighting in the complex (multiple 6 story
> buildings) lasted only a few hours and we're all running around in the
> halls with flashlights.
Any possibilty to write up a case study to help other people plan for how
to deal with this kind of an emergency?
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
