Tornados in Ashburn (Equinix affected)

Sat Sep 18 17:19:38 UTC 2004

Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
> 
> John Starta <john at starta.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29911-2004Sep17.html
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> 
> Printer-friendly version for your signin-bypassing pleasure:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29911-2004Sep17?language=printer
> 
> I was a little closer to the Ashburn one than I really wanted to be -
> was able to see it in the distance to the north (heading south to
> north as would be expected given it was from the eastern edge of a
> northbound heading hurricane remnant) as I drove along the Greenway.
> 
> Notwithstanding an incident report sent out by Equinix at 2012 stating
> "The Chiller plant is fully functional", our temperature graphs
> indicate that there was a cooling issue at Equinix Ashburn F from 1815
> until 1855; the start time corresponds with the
> Chantilly/Dulles/Ashburn tornado being in the area of Equinix.

Some additional graphs from F building for last 24 hours:

http://www.deliver3.com/ash/

> 
> Another tenant at Ashburn F states that there were AC power
> disturbances.  I can not speak to that; as far as I can tell (no
> special instrumentation in my installations) my power was fine.

> 
> The reason that I bring this up is that I believe a report which
> is posted two hours after the event and glosses over potentially
> serious operational anomalies by stating that everything is cool (in
> the present tense) does not serve anyone's best interests.  I
> understand and accept the two hour delay from the start of the
> incident, but I expect scrupulous honesty in after-action assessments,
> not a marketing-driven assertion that everything is Just Fine.

Or even acknowledgement that the incident existed, when we called in our 
temperature spike, we were told "hrm, that's odd, we'll send somebody 
over to look".

> 
> I encourage the powers that be at Equinix to make public (or at least
> send to its customers) a revised statement that truthfully reflects
> what happened Friday night.
> 
>                                         ---Rob (KE4DJT, spotter FXN16)
> 