Re: DHS letters for fuel and facility access

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>]

On 17/Mar/20 18:44, Paul Nash wrote:

> September 2001.  Just after the 9/11 attacks, all of lower Manhattan was shut down.  Out link (IIRC) was to a 
> satellite farm on Staten island, across the bay to 60 Hudson.  Power went off, diesels kicked in, fuel trucks was not 
> allowed in, and a few days later we lost all international connectivity.
>
> Lots of important people lost power as well, so the feds decided to let the diesel tankers in after a few days’ 
> deliberations.

Ah, okay. That must have been unique to South Africa, I imagine?

My recollection during that month was we still had connectivity. We
routed our services via PanAmSat's PAS-3R (which later became Intelsat
3R after the acquisition) and landed in their Atlanta teleport. We
weren't impacted, in Uganda, at the time, nor I recall any other outages
in Kenya, Tanzania or Rwanda either.

I'm reminded how, from Uganda, PAS-3R was such a shallow bird, ±6° :-).

Mark.