[84490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LA power outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Tue Sep 13 21:22:45 2005
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:19:13 -0700
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Reeves, Rob" <rreeves@arbinet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200509130330.j8D3UfXk011701@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:21:59 -0000, "Reeves, Rob" said:
>
>>We've been told by our field tech in LA that One Wilshire had lost power
>>for a bit, but it is now restored. I don't know the duration of the
>>outage, but our equipment there is on DC and did not go down.
>
>
> So - who in LA is going to be telling Santa they want a new data-center sized
> diesel UPS genset for Christmas? ;)
More like, "which manager is telling Santa they want a new, clue-imbued
employee for Christmas?"
I'm not too close to the story and I don't live in Los Angeles (I live and
work 55-65 miles northeast of downtown), but it seems to me that the problem
could have been avoided with a little more caution on the part of the person
who cut the wires.
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