Power outage in North East

Thu Aug 14 20:51:52 UTC 2003

At the moment the power outage encompasses:

New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
Detroit
Toronto
Ottowa

and various and sundry smaller cities.

Check your local news outlet for more details.

Thanks,

Adam Debus
Linux Certified Professional, Linux Certified Administrator #447641
Network Engineer, ReachONE Internet
adam at reachone.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damian Gerow" <damian at sentex.net>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Power outage in North East

>
> Thus spake Joel Perez (jperez at numind.net) [14/08/03 16:27]:
> > Has anyone heard of a big Power outage in the North east?
> > I just got a call from one of my tech's in the GBLX bldg in Newark, NJ
> > at 1085 raymond and they are telling him that they lost power!
> > But I also got a call from AT&T in NY that they also lost Power!
>
> It looks like a rather large power outage -- we're in South Western
Ontario,
> Canada, and power is out in Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, Hespler, and (I'm
> pretty sure) London as well.  Can't say about Toronto.
>
>   - Damian
>