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Re: Ivan and outages
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:51:19 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
I have some involvement with a telecom/internet company located in Grenada. This was sent to me in the last day or so.
With reference to staff in Grenada, 4 out of 6 involved people are accounted for. The country as you are probably aware has lost over half it's buildings. Over 90% of the ones left are damaged. The electricity will not be restored to the island for an estimated 3-4 months and communications are currently only possible from cellphones in a couple of places. The office roof collapsed destroying the office and with the rain that followed, anything remaining un damaged was then drowned. (Technician) has collected all the hardware and is attempting to dry it out, however without electricity and with the current state of emergency, we can neither test it or fly it out of the country.
Apparently, there country is under military control; no people allowed in our out. "State of Disaster" has been proclaimed. Also, it is being said that there is a general food shortage. On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:
I'm looking for operational status information from Grenada, Jamaica, Grand Caymen, and Cuba. Anyone with clue drop me a note off-list, I will post a summary.
-- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex () nac net, latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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