Detroit Power Failure
The city of Detroit, Wayne County, Wayne State University, Redford and Livonia were hit by the power failure at 12:45pm. Detroit airport is operating on emergency power. Detroit Public Lighting's computer center also lost power. DPL is hooking up portable generators to its computer center so it can then determine the exent of the outage and when it will be repaired. Associated Press reports repeated calls to DPL resulted in a busy signal.
There are two airports in Detroit, Detroit City Airport (DET, a smallish airport in town that Pro Air flies out of) and Detroit Metro Airport (DTW, the Northwest hub). The only reports that I have seen indicate that the problems were limited to DET. Ed On 13 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
The city of Detroit, Wayne County, Wayne State University, Redford and Livonia were hit by the power failure at 12:45pm. Detroit airport is operating on emergency power. Detroit Public Lighting's computer center also lost power. DPL is hooking up portable generators to its computer center so it can then determine the exent of the outage and when it will be repaired.
Associated Press reports repeated calls to DPL resulted in a busy signal.
On 13 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
The city of Detroit, Wayne County, Wayne State University, Redford and Livonia were hit by the power failure at 12:45pm. Detroit airport is operating on emergency power. Detroit Public Lighting's computer center also lost power. DPL is hooking up portable generators to its computer center so it can then determine the exent of the outage and when it will be repaired.
I'm sitting in the middle of this problem. Our computer center is currently running on a DPL generator (since about 1pm yesterday). As of right now no resolution in sight. Our backbone network is half powered down at the moment. Last I heard they said that we would have power by 3am (2.5 hours ago). -- Daniel Eklund Ph: +1.313.577.5558 Manager of Data Network Services Fx: +1.313.577.5626 Computing and Information Technology email: ac4070@wayne.edu Wayne State University http://ucomm.wayne.edu/~dan
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