Minneapolis: 2 reports of tornado touchdowns
I'm kind of surprised that there has been no metion of network outages in Minneapolis, despite tornado(es) touching down there tonight and power outages: http://www.startribune.com/stories/127/5628282.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
I'm kind of surprised that there has been no metion of network outages in Minneapolis, despite tornado(es) touching down there tonight and power outages:
Tornadoes aren't an unheard-of phenomenon in the Midwest, and smart NSPs and ISPs will have planned for such events. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: sjsobol@JustThe.net Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307
Representing a large enterprise company in the twin cities, we didn't feel any impact from the storms as far as our carriers go (we use the big 3, RBOC and others); no blips. The areas affected are "suburban" for lack of a better term without much carrier presence (CO's are obviously abundant, but they took it well AFAIK). In other news our data center (located in one of hard-hit areas) switched over to generator without even a flicker of the lights and all is well there. So, success stories from my perspective. Being a paid-on-call firefighter for one of those suburbs, well, that was a different story and way off topic. - Scott
Tornadoes aren't an unheard-of phenomenon in the Midwest, and smart NSPs and ISPs will have planned for such events.
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