Nope. The main generator for the 5th floor apparently ran for a while, but the radiator became clogged with garbage floating aroung in the air, and therefore couldn't cool itself, and overheated. They shut it down to prevent it from hurting itself. Fuel was another issue. On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
A side-note on why 25 Broadway lost power.
I am told they had the fuel, but the "Local 3" union worker who was watching the gauges on the generator misread the dials, and a human error caused the generator to run bone dry.
--Phil
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Marshall Eubanks Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:27 AM To: Craig Partridge; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: effects of NYC power outage
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:05:21 -0400 Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com> wrote:
Anyone got good data comparing the effects on the Net (BGP reachability, etc) of this weekend's NYC power outage with the effects power outage
late
on September 11th.
Hello;
To be honest, I did not see any BGP or other routing effects from the NYC fire (there were problems on Abilene this weekend, but they were due to a bad router update). My data are presented on
http://www.multicasttech.com/status
and are fairly coarse-grained, having a 6 hour update cycle.
The 9/11 problems actually came starting on 9/13 and 14 when the battery / generator power started running out at 25 Broadway. My understanding is that the biggest problem was the inability to access the facility to refuel.
My (multicast-centric) analysis of the 9/11 response was presented at Nanog 23 : http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/eubanks.html
You should also look at the other two presentations on 9/11 and the Internet at that meeting :
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/agenda.html
Regards Marshall Eubanks
T.M. Eubanks Multicast Technologies, Inc. 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609 e-mail : tme@multicasttech.com http://www.multicasttech.com
Test your network for multicast : http://www.multicasttech.com/mt/
I'm on a National Academy of Sciences committee looking at how the Internet fared on 9/11 and we're always in search of good comparative data.
Thanks!
Craig Partridge Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies
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