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RE: Power outage in North East
From: "Ejay Hire" <ejay.hire () isdn net>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:24:45 -0500
IME, releasing the magic smoke from $device is not considered normal unlesss the device intentionally uses processes like internal combustion. -e -----Original Message----- From: up () 3 am [mailto:up () 3 am] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:19 PM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Power outage in North East Actually, Mayor Blumberg just told CNN that the smoke being seen at the ConEd plant is normal for this situation. It is also being reported that this whole thing started in Ottawa, or an overload of the Niagra-Mowhak power grid. On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, N. Richard Solis wrote:
I just got off the phone with an old boss of mine. ;-) It would
appear
that there is a large fire at a ConEd plant that has now caused a cascading power outage in the Northeast. Some more plants may have tripped offline because of the load they absorbed from the loss of the other plant. If I get more information, I'll post. Damian Gerow wrote: > > Thus spake Joel Perez (jperez () numind net) [14/08/03 16:27]: > > Has anyone heard of a big Power outage in the North east? > > I just got a call from one of my tech's in the GBLX bldg in
Newark, NJ
> > at 1085 raymond and they are telling him that they lost power! > > But I also got a call from AT&T in NY that they also lost Power! > > It looks like a rather large power outage -- we're in South Western > Ontario, > Canada, and power is out in Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, Hespler,
and
> (I'm > pretty sure) London as well. Can't say about Toronto. > > - Damian >
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up () 3 am http://3.am ======================================================================== =
Current thread:
- RE: Power outage in North East, (continued)
- RE: Power outage in North East Sean Crandall (Aug 14)
- Re: Power outage in North East Michael Lucking (Aug 14)
- Re: Power outage in North East Lee Watterworth (Aug 14)
- Re: Power outage in North East Spencer Wood (Aug 14)
- RE: Power outage in North East Brennan_Murphy (Aug 14)
- RE: Power outage in North East Scott Weeks (Aug 14)
- RE: Power outage in North East McBurnett, Jim (Aug 14)
- RE: Power outage in North East kwallace (Aug 14)
- Re: Power outage in North East sgorman1 (Aug 14)
- RE: Power outage in North East Brennan_Murphy (Aug 14)
- RE: Power outage in North East Ejay Hire (Aug 14)
- RE: Power outage in North East Ejay Hire (Aug 15)
- RE: Power outage in North East Sean Crandall (Aug 14)