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To: nanog@merit.edu From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> Subject: Its not a worm, just Mother Nature

Yesterday, Chicago and the midwest was hit by severe thunderstorms. Power was disrupted in several cities, and even now at least one provider still recovering somewhere in the Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland area. Today, Florida is getting hit with a tropical storm. A couple of providers seem to have a few connectivity problems.

It seems that Nextel/Motorola and Verizon are having troubles in various parts of Northern VA. I just got off phone with Nextel and Verizon, and seems that there have been power outages or generator failures, and some of their equipment, picking up the flack, is overloaded. Verizon and Motorola were dispatched to Reston, where there were some RF errors on the Nextel switches. Maybe someone on the list can verify or negate these reports from Nextel. I don't mean to imply that this Friday afternoon, Northern-VA outage is directly related to the Florida hurricane, but -- certainly -- the heat, humidity, and overwhelming use of air-conditioners can be considered climactic fallout. -Karl Systems Administrator, ARIN.net --------------------------------------------