| From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of | Alex Kamantauskas | Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:53 PM | To: nanog@merit.edu | Subject: Re: Power outage in North East | | From MSNBC: | | Other affected cities included Buffalo, Albany and Syracuse, N.Y.; | Hartford, Conn.; Lansing and many other smaller cities in Michigan; Akron | and Toledo, Ohio; and Ottawa and Montreal in Ontario. | | Washington and the federal government were not affected Neither were much | of New England - including all of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New | Hampshire, southern Vermont and eastern Connecticut - and other areas of | Canada, including Quebec City. Correction to the above snippet. Montreal & Quebec City (Province of Quebec; not Ontario as stated above) are on a separate power grid and thus not affected by this outage. Todd -- | | On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Adam Debus wrote: | | > | > 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@reachone.com | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "Damian Gerow" <damian@sentex.net> | > To: <nanog@merit.edu> | > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:30 PM | > Subject: Re: Power outage in North East | > | > | > > | > > Thus spake Joel Perez (jperez@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 | > > | > | | | -- | /ak