Power loss in downtown manhattan

Sat Jul 20 22:11:26 UTC 2002

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Chrisy Luke wrote:
> Martin Hannigan wrote (on Jul 20):
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but... not if you have a generator.
>
> Much/most of 60 Hudson doesn't have this luxury, however.
>
> But everyone knows this and builds their network around the fact,
> right?

The ConEd East River power outage had a short term impact on the
world-wide Internet.  It created a nice route flap, but things returned
to "normal" (as normal as the Internet gets) quickly.  Things will get
more interesting when batteries starting running out in 8-12 hours.