Some Bell Atlantic COs in North Jersey have experience brown-outs as well. Local and tandem switched voice are unaffected, but Frame Relay and SMDS equipment took hits. Regards, -chris -----Original Message----- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 5:00 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: WEATHER: rolling blackouts along the East Coast Due to the heat, high electric use, and the loss of some generators some east coast power companies are into their reserve limits, which means a loss of a generation plant will cause an indefinite blackhout. Several utilities have started some rolling black outs in their service regions, voluntary and mandatory load dumping and voltage reductions. Each 'planned' rolling black out is expected to last less than 20 minutes, but the electric companies are warning customers service may be interrupted up to four hours. The heat is supposed to break this afternoon/evening. However the front will bring a line of strong thunderstorms through the east coast, which creates its own problems. All of our east coast POPs have stayed up, so far. But several of our customers have experienced power outages at their sites and some libraries have closed for the day. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation