On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:59:37 -0700 Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:
Olsen, Jason wrote:
Anyone have more information? It seems to have started around 02:30 local time this morning.
We lost connectivity (WAN/Internet/POTS) to our Long Beach site at around 2:27 AM PDT today. Several news agencies are reporting it on the web (hooray news.google.com), citing "mechanical glitches" or bad weather.
Bad weather could definitely be a factor.
Southern Cali electric utilities are notoriously unreliable during bad weather, especially up in my neck of the woods. It's been raining pretty steadily here for the past two days; I drove 150 miles from Apple Valley to northeast San Diego this morning and it was even raining down here in SD -- may still be raining now, I just haven't looked outside. I even heard a radio report that a funnel cloud touched down in the foothills outside Los Angeles; I forget exactly where. (That doesn't happen very often around here.)
While weather in Southern California may affect your electricity, it has only a minor effect in the Long Beach area. Monday evening's storm was fairly mild with winds under 10 MPH and less than a half an inch of rain overnight. Not what I would consider a heavy storm. Rains do cause telco data problems. When I had dial-up, my maximum rate dropeed from about 45K to 37Kbps during and for a day or two following rain. Telephone service is beginning to be restored in the Long Beach area but is still sporadic. Around 2:20 or 2:30 a.m., I was awoken by my clock radio with three or more sets of soft buzzing noises--as though a radio station went silent. I checked my cordless phone and had dialtone, then went back to sleep. Is there any correlation? matthew black e-mail postmaster california state university, long beach