11 Jan
2005
11 Jan
'05
10:23 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:13:29 PST, Crist Clark said:
Remember that last big one in the northeast? The government kept reassuring that it wasn't terrorism... like that means there isn't a security issue. If a few dopes at a one power company can collapse the whole northeast grid, there IS a security problem.
Yeah, *that* one was basically a matter of restarting the grid. Do you remember about a decade or so back, an ice storm in Ontario? *That* one had many places without power for *weeks*. ObNANOG: How many weeks of continuous duty is *your* backup generator rated for? ;)