Oregon storms affect trans-pacific traffic

Tue Dec 4 23:20:30 UTC 2007

Mark Newton wrote:

> On 05/12/2007, at 9:29 AM, John Savageau wrote:

>> If there is anything we at One Wilshire can do to assist any network ...
>
> SCCN have carried out a temporary repair, and services are now restored
> (ours are, in any case -- Two of our six unprotected STM-4's on SCCN  
> were
> affected by this, but they're now back)

> Sounds like things are pretty bad at Portland, Oregon.  Repair took over
> 24 hours because flooding prevented the splicing crews from getting to
> the worksite.  Ouch.

Normally I'd be quiet, but realize that not all news travels, even when 
it's bad. I don't know whether it's been restored, but last I heard, 
traffic on I-5 between Portland and Seattle was completely cut off, and 
traffic was being routed through Yakima (making a 3 hour trip into a 7 
hour trip). Oregon is very hard hit. Here's the Washington map; it's bad 
enough here.

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/trafficalerts/