Think of it as an acid test of everyone's backup systems. :-) More than one has failed due to a bad battery, out of feul, failures in the UPS whilst the generator kicks in.. and, of course, because there was no generator or ups to begin with..
On 06/14/00, "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> wrote:
Word is they're not capable of handling the current demand (it is the second day of what feels like a serious heat wave, with temperatures over 90 degrees all over the Bay Area), and power may be shut off on a rotating basis, a block or a few blocks at a time, if the load cannot be reduced.
Okay, just received word that they're doing it: rolling black- outs for 90 minutes at a time, around the Bay Area (not just in the city.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2000/06/14/powe...
It'll be interesting to see what kind of outages this causes; for one thing, Sean's power may go out.
If power goes out in the NOC and there's nobody around to monitor it....
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