The US Geological Survey has revised the magnitude to 7.0. Due to structural damage in the air traffic control tower the SeaTac airport has been closed down. All railroad traffic at standstill until tracks have been inspected. Cell phones in the area are very congested, and people report difficulty making phone calls in and out of the area. I have not heard if any phone companies have imposed network management controls on voice traffic. Folks have reported in from the Westin Building, the main Internet hub in the seattle area, that no substantional damage to the building. Approximately 11,000 electrical customers are without power.
At 12:10 PM -0800 2/28/2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
Cell phones in the area are very congested, and people report difficulty making phone calls in and out of the area. I have not heard if any phone companies have imposed network management controls on voice traffic.
I have a Sprint PCS phone, all calls dialed left me with a fast busy (when I could get carrier) until about about 30 minutes ago. Now it rings but I get disconnected when the call tries to connect. Land lines are still working fine, from my perspective. I just spoke with my brother in Lacy, WA (about 15 miles from epicenter) in a different area code, so that looks good. I was also on the phone with someone in San Franciso during the event, and the line stayed on.
Folks have reported in from the Westin Building, the main Internet hub in the seattle area, that no substantional damage to the building.
We have circuits to UUNet, C&W and Zocalo. We did not see any outage during the event, and packets are still flowing fine. The freeways around here are another story though... http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/PugetSoundTraffic/ Regards, Chris _________________________________________________________________ Chris Kilbourn Phone: +1.425.483.0483 President / CTO Fax: +1.425.482.6871 digital.forest, Inc. where Internet solutions grow 19515 North Creek Parkway, Suite 314 http: www.forest.net Bothell, WA 98011 email: chrisk@forest.net
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Chris Kilbourn wrote:
I have a Sprint PCS phone, all calls dialed left me with a fast busy (when I could get carrier) until about about 30 minutes ago. Now it rings but I get disconnected when the call tries to connect.
and this is different from your usual service how? :) andy
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:10:16PM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
Folks have reported in from the Westin Building, the main Internet hub in the seattle area, that no substantional damage to the building.
If anything ever happens to the Westin, or at least the 19th floor of the Westin, believe me, we will ALL know it very quickly, as any traceroutes into the Seattle area will be quick to star out. --msa
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