Power outage in North East

Thu Aug 14 20:44:16 UTC 2003

cnn is reporting nyc and other cities in NE with
power outages as well as cleveland and detroit. 

no further details

-----Original Message-----
From: Damian Gerow [mailto:damian at sentex.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:31 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Power outage in North East

Thus spake Joel Perez (jperez at 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