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"... Niagara-Mohawk power grid was overloaded."
by Eric A. Hall 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

natural failure of the grid http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html Major power outage hits New York, other large cities Thursday, August 14, 2003 Posted: 4:58 PM EDT (2058 GMT) NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck dozens of cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon. Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; and Ottawa, Ontario. The power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m. State officials said the Niagara-Mohawk power grid was overloaded. The grid provides power for New York and stretches into Canada. The officials said the outage is a natural occurrence and not related to terrorism. Much of Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street were shut down. All area airports and the Long Island Railroad were also affected. The airports were operating on back-up power and operations were reported to be normal, officials said. The New York City Police Department said they were trying to determine what happened. Thousands of people could be seen leaving buildings and walking into the streets. New York subways were reported stopped and people were trapped in the cars. -30- -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

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Power outage in North East
by Joel Perez 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

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! ---------------------------------------------- Joel Perez <jperez(a)ntera.net> | IP Engineer http://www.ntera.net/ | Ntera 305.914.3412

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Boston seems unaffected by blackouts
by Andy Grosser 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

I'm in downtown Boston (Back Bay), and things seem normal here. No local outages reported as of yet (6:25 PM EST), that I can tell. Sure, "Blame Canada, Blame Canada..." ;-) This whole thing should have interesting implications for infrastructure upgrades. Or it'll tell us something about consumption, and taking these things for granted. Solar panels, anyone? ;-) --- Andy Grosser, CCNP andy(a)meniscus.org "One does not become Woody Guthrie by design." - Steve Earle, writing about Bob Dylan ---

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Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled
by John Neiberger 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

>>>> Sean Donelan <sean(a)donelan.com> 8/14/03 8:29:07 AM >>> >John Markoff reports in the New York Times that Microsoft plans to change >how it ships Windows XP due to the worm. In the future Microsoft will >ship both business and consumer verisons of Windows XP with the included >firewall enabled by default. [Veering further off-topic] Hmm...I didn't even know XP had a built-in firewall. Any bets on how long it is before other companies with software firewall products bring suit against Microsoft for bundling a firewall in the OS? --

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RE: Power outage in North East
by Ejay Hire 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

IME, releasing the magic smoke from $device is not considered normal unlesss the device intentionally uses processes like internal combustion. -e -----Original Message----- From: up(a)3.am [mailto:up@3.am] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:19 PM To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: Power outage in North East Actually, Mayor Blumberg just told CNN that the smoke being seen at the ConEd plant is normal for this situation. It is also being reported that this whole thing started in Ottawa, or an overload of the Niagra-Mowhak power grid. On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, N. Richard Solis wrote: > > I just got off the phone with an old boss of mine. ;-) It would appear > that there is a large fire at a ConEd plant that has now caused a > cascading power outage in the Northeast. Some more plants may have > tripped offline because of the load they absorbed from the loss of the > other plant. > > If I get more information, I'll post. > > Damian Gerow wrote: > > > > > Thus spake Joel Perez (jperez(a)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 > > > > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up(a)3.am http://3.am ======================================================================== =

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RE: Power outage in North East
by kwallace＠pcconnection.com 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

>From my narrow point of view, Boston MA and Cambridge MA have not been (yet) affected... Keith Wallace Director, Telecommunications PC Connection Services IT Solutions for Business kwallace at pconnection dot com Phone: 603-683-2290 Fax: 603-683-2355 The information in this email, and subsequent attachments, may contain confidential information that is intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). This message or any part thereof must not be disclosed, copied, distributed or retained by any person without authorization from the above named sender. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Debus [mailto:nanog@delsol.net] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:52 PM To: Damian Gerow; nanog(a)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(a)reachone.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damian Gerow" <damian(a)sentex.net> To: <nanog(a)merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: Re: Power outage in North East > > Thus spake Joel Perez (jperez(a)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 >

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RE: East Coast outage?
by Ingevaldson, Dan (ISS Atlanta) 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Latest is the failure at 14th street was the original failure and the rest cascaded from there. -d -----Original Message----- From: up(a)3.am [mailto:up@3.am] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:51 PM To: Aaron D. Britt Cc: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: East Coast outage? >From CNN: NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck several large cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon. Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; and Ottawa, Ontario. The power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m. <snip> no word on the cause(s), but a ConEd transformer on East 14th street was said to be on fine...not sure how that could affect other cities, though... On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Aaron D. Britt wrote: > > I just lost 80 circuits (Voice and Data), across multiple states on > the East Coast in the last 10 minutes. Is there a Northeast power > outage or fiber cut that anyone knows about? > > Any info would be appreciated... > > -Aaron > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up(a)3.am http://3.am ======================================================================== =

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RE: Power outage in North East
by Brennan_Murphy＠NAI.com 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

cnn is reporting nyc and other cities in NE with power outages as well as cleveland and detroit. no further details -----Original Message----- From: Damian Gerow [mailto:damian@sentex.net] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:31 PM To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: Power outage in North East Thus spake Joel Perez (jperez(a)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

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RE: Power outage in North East
by Brennan_Murphy＠NAI.com 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

NYTimes and CNN are reporting the grid was taken down deliberately to prevent overload. Terrorism is not suspected. It appears in NYC it's a good day for almost ~everyone~ to go outside and take a walk.

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Re: Power outage in North East
by Lee Watterworth 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Ontario Canada is also out. -------------------------- Lee Watterworth (lee at rim dot net) Data Network Specialist Research in Motion Ltd +1 519 888 7465 x2610 -----Original Message----- From: Scott Francis <darkuncle(a)darkuncle.net> To: Joel Perez <jperez(a)numind.net> CC: nanog(a)merit.edu <nanog(a)merit.edu> Sent: Thu Aug 14 16:28:21 2003 Subject: Re: Power outage in North East

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