Washington DC power failures

Tue Oct 23 20:27:49 UTC 2001

I'm sure exploding manholes and the unpredictable outages are so much better
for business.

Aren't the explosions supposed to be drastically reduced during the
fall/winter season?

Regards,

Deepak Jain
AiNET

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
David Lesher
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:19 PM
To: nanog list
Subject: Re: Washington DC power failures

Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
>
>
>
> Washington DC power company PEPCO had more underground
> fires at 17th and M streets NW.  This has affected
> some circuits out of carriers with facilities on
> 1200 block of L street.

Note that PEPCO has just started a major rebuild of the much
damned system in Georgetown. It's supposed to take teraseconds to
complete since the local merchants:

	Don't want any outages

	Don't want any street construction
	during the business day

	Don't want any noise or dirt...

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