forwarded (with permission) for someone who can't post to nanog: ------ Forwarded message ------ From: Ben Venzke <bvenzke@intelcenter.com> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:56:00 -0400 Subject: NANOG - Outage Summary To: Richard Welty NE Outages - v2.9 The cause appears to be an overload of the Niagara-Mohawk grid which then caused cascading failures. Outage started around 1600 EST List of areas without power that I'm aware of. Sporadic impact in Maine, Tennessee, Illinois - Ben Venzke AIRPORTS WITHOUT POWER: Cleveland Detroit Kennedy LaGuardia Newark Ottawa Toronto Outage Areas: US CONNECTICUT: Bridgeport Fairfield Counties Hartford Stanford MASSACHUSETTS: Boston (sporadic) Pittsfield Springfield MICHIGAN: Ann Arbor Detroit Lansing NEW JERSEY (everywhere north of New Brunswick): East Rutherford Nanuet Newark Seacaucus NEW YORK: Albany Buffalo NYC (including City Hall and Wall Street, subways down) Plattsburg Rochester Syracuse Utica OHIO: Akron Ashland Cleveland Medina Toledo PENNSYLVANIA (NW parts): Erie Oil City Philadelphia Titusville VERMONT (southern areas) Burlington CANADA: Toronto Ottawa (Ottawa - Pembroke - North Bay corridor) Windsor, Ontario Waterloo, Ontario Cambridge, Ontario Guelph, Ontario Hespler, Ontario -------- End of message ------- -- Richard Welty rwelty@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security