I'm located in Old Town Alexandria. We experienced no power problems of any sort during this time period. We also co-lo in Herndon and had no indications of any problems there either. -----Original Message----- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:41 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Northern Viriginia Power On Thu, 05 April 2001, John Starta wrote:

The service interruption was apparently a result of a major regional power

failure in Northern Virginia. I'm curious whether it was AOL or their providers who suffered from the power failure. I would expect AOL would have back-up power.

http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3320700,00.html

Was anyone else effected in Northern Virginia? Other than a couple of stories about AOL IM being down, I couldn't find any news coverage of a major regional power outage in Northern Viriginia. The only story I found was an electrical fire at Dullas Town Center near the Gap store. VEPCO customer service didn't know of any power outages.