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More on Moscow power failure( was RE: Moscow: global power outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Wed May 25 10:10:30 2005
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To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 15:12:52 +0100
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> And if you check this BBC
> news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4578599.stm
> you will see that generators are available because they
> used them to get the underground trains into the nearest
> station in order to evacuate in an orderly fashion
If you can read Russian, there is a lot more information
on the BBC's Russian language page here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_4578000/4578219.stm
The cascading failure affected Moscow and towns as far as
200km south of the city. 95% of people were evacuated from
the Metro by 1pm. They are restoring power in phases, hospitals
are expected to be running by 3 pm Moscow time. The outage
hit the southern half of Moscow and some parts of the northern
half of the city. Many traffic signals were down and militia
officers were manually directing traffic.
No mention of Internet stuff but they do point out that the
space flight centre in Korolev was functioning normally.
--Michael Dillon
