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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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Power outages
by Jim Wood 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

You can go to CNN for a complete map of the outages Jim Wood jwood(a)zebracomputers.com MW Technology Group Inc DBA: Zebra Computer Repair & Networking 360-736-7000 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.509 / Virus Database: 306 - Release Date: 8/12/2003

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Re: Power outage in North East
by sgorman1＠gmu.edu 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

looks like a cascading failure from the a Conedison transformer in NYC http://www.msnbc.com/news/952578.asp?0cv=CA01 ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee Watterworth <lwatterworth(a)rim.net> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:44 pm Subject: Re: Power outage in North East > > > 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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Re: Big power outage in Ontario ?
by bukys＠cs.rochester.edu 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

It's out all over the NorthEast -- outages in NYC, Ottawa, Toronto, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany.

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RE: Power outage in North East
by McBurnett, Jim 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

FROM CNN website 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. Much of Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street were shut down, including all area airports and the Long Island Railroad. 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. A Con Edison transformer on East 14th Street in Manhattan was afire, CNN learned. 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. -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Muldoon [mailto:doon@inoc.net] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:34 PM To: Joel Perez; nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: Power outage in North East On Thursday 14 August 2003 04:23 pm, Joel Perez wrote: > 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! Power is flakier then all heck here in Albany, NY. Outages / major brown outs. We are running on Generator here since it is way cleaner power at the moment. -- Patrick Muldoon Network/Software Engineer INOC (http://www.inoc.net) PGPKEY (http://www.inoc.net/~doon) Key fingerprint = 8F70 6306 F0A7 B8DA BA95 76C4 606A 7DC1 370D 752C I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.

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