Northern Viriginia Power

Fri Apr 6 02:20:23 UTC 2001

no problem in Vienna Va (2 blocks from Boone Blvd).

-craig

At 6:41 PM -0700 04/05/2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>On Thu, 05 April 2001, John Starta wrote:
>>  The service interruption was apparently a result of a major regional power
>>  failure in Northern Virginia. I'm curious whether it was AOL or their
>>  providers who suffered from the power failure. I would expect AOL would
>>  have back-up power.
>>
>>  http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3320700,00.html
>
>Was anyone else effected in Northern Virginia?  Other than a couple of
>stories about AOL IM being down, I couldn't find any news coverage of
>a major regional power outage in Northern Viriginia.  The only story
>I found was an electrical fire at Dullas Town Center near the Gap store.
>
>VEPCO customer service didn't know of any power outages.