Sabotage cuts power to 18 million people
ILIGAN, Mindanao - Muslim separatist rebels blacked out the southern third of the Philippines in overnight sabotage attacks, leaving about 18 million people in the dark for hours, officials said Thursday. Electricity supply was restored to most of Mindanao island by Thursday as the government fired up emergency generating stations to temporarily replace baseload plants disabled by the toppling of transmission pylons overnight Wednesday, they said. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas blew up at least five steel transmission towers before midnight using improvised explosives from mortar shells on Wednesday, knocking out from the grid the key Agus hydro-electric power complex outside this city. [...] Repairs to restore the transmission lines to Agus were expected to take a week. http://www.malaysiakini.com/foreignnews/200302280111046662857.php
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:33:48PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas blew up at least five steel transmission towers before midnight using improvised explosives from mortar shells on Wednesday, knocking out from the grid the key Agus hydro-electric power complex outside this city.
Were there itinerate tree-dwellers involved? -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
Now, that's my kind of DDos attack! Put down the scripts and pick up the high explosives! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net> To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:48 PM Subject: Re: Sabotage cuts power to 18 million people
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:33:48PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas blew up at least five steel transmission towers before midnight using improvised explosives
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mortar shells on Wednesday, knocking out from the grid the key Agus hydro-electric power complex outside this city.
Were there itinerate tree-dwellers involved?
-- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: :ILIGAN, Mindanao - Muslim separatist rebels blacked out the southern third :of the Philippines in overnight sabotage attacks, leaving about 18 million :people in the dark for hours, officials said Thursday. So we have a bit of time to figure out how to profit from the millions of new babies to be born 9 months from now in the affected area. :Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas blew up at least five :steel transmission towers before midnight using improvised explosives from :mortar shells on Wednesday, knocking out from the grid the key Agus :hydro-electric power complex outside this city. Judging by how well Hydro Quebec handled the ice storm a few years ago, we can probably expect many other domestic power providers to take more than a few hours to recover from multiple hits against the infrastructure. Though in that case they were hampered by icy road conditions. During some mild rolling brownouts here a while ago, I sent out the phone number of the local hydro company NOC to some stakeholders, and reminded them to write it down, as it won't be of much use to them if it is sitting in their email during a blackout. ;) Something to think about anyway. -- batz
Unless you're main work computer (or personal) is a laptop or you have a PocketPC device (with charged batteries.) Both in my case. Nope, I'm not paranoid, just prepared. We've had two speeders take out power in our grid in the last two years. Critical stuff is on UPS/Genset but not everything. Nice to have a 'local' backup. The PocketPC is also a cell/GPRS device. Yes, I know, but if it's bad enough to effect the cell system, the power company is likely already on the job. ;0 Best regards, ______________________________ Al Rowland
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of batz Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:16 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Sabotage cuts power to 18 million people [snip] During some mild rolling brownouts here a while ago, I sent out the phone number of the local hydro company NOC to some stakeholders, and reminded them to write it down, as it won't be of much use to them if it is sitting in their email during a blackout. ;)
Something to think about anyway.
-- batz
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