Northern VA - Its not a worm, just Mother Nature

Fri Aug 3 20:58:44 UTC 2001

At 04:47 PM 8/3/2001, Karl wrote:
>I don't mean to imply that this Friday afternoon, Northern-VA outage is
>directly related to the Florida hurricane, but -- certainly -- the heat,
>humidity, and overwhelming use of air-conditioners can be considered
>climactic fallout.

Florida hurricane?

Unless Barry's strengthened a LOT in the past few hours (and NHC says he 
hasn't), he's not a hurricane... barely a tropical storm.

Sure, he's dumping rain across parts of FL... but let's not get the cart 
before the horse.