Re: Northern VA - Its not a worm, just Mother Nature

At 04:47 PM 8/3/2001, Karl wrote:

I don't mean to imply that this Friday afternoon, Northern-VA outage is directly related to the Florida hurricane, but -- certainly -- the heat, humidity, and overwhelming use of air-conditioners can be considered climactic fallout.

Florida hurricane? Unless Barry's strengthened a LOT in the past few hours (and NHC says he hasn't), he's not a hurricane... barely a tropical storm. Sure, he's dumping rain across parts of FL... but let's not get the cart before the horse.