WEATHER: rolling blackouts along the East Coast

Tue Jul 6 22:12:42 UTC 1999

Some Bell Atlantic COs in North Jersey have experience brown-outs as
well.  Local and tandem switched voice are unaffected, but Frame Relay
and SMDS equipment took hits.

Regards,

-chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Donelan [mailto:SEAN at SDG.DRA.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 5:00 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: WEATHER: rolling blackouts along the East Coast

Due to the heat, high electric use, and the loss of some generators some
east coast power companies are into their reserve limits, which means a
loss
of a generation plant will cause an indefinite blackhout.  Several
utilities
have started some rolling black outs in their service regions, voluntary
and mandatory load dumping and voltage reductions.  Each 'planned'
rolling
black out is expected to last less than 20 minutes, but the electric
companies
are warning customers service may be interrupted up to four hours.

The heat is supposed to break this afternoon/evening.  However the front
will bring a line of strong thunderstorms through the east coast, which
creates its own problems.

All of our east coast POPs have stayed up, so far. But several of our
customers have experienced power outages at their sites and some
libraries
have closed for the day.
-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  Affiliation given for identification not representation