[85883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon outage in Southern California?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Tue Oct 18 15:59:53 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:59:37 -0700
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B4758D298282E04E8A4AE6517CE58197020E14@obt-w-exchbe2p>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Olsen, Jason wrote:
>>Anyone have more information? It seems to have started
>>around 02:30 local time this morning.
>
> We lost connectivity (WAN/Internet/POTS) to our Long Beach site at
> around 2:27 AM PDT today. Several news agencies are reporting it on the
> web (hooray news.google.com), citing "mechanical glitches" or bad
> weather.
Bad weather could definitely be a factor.
Southern Cali electric utilities are notoriously unreliable during bad
weather, especially up in my neck of the woods. It's been raining pretty
steadily here for the past two days; I drove 150 miles from Apple Valley to
northeast San Diego this morning and it was even raining down here in SD --
may still be raining now, I just haven't looked outside. I even heard a
radio report that a funnel cloud touched down in the foothills outside Los
Angeles; I forget exactly where. (That doesn't happen very often around here.)
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