Power outage in North East

Thu Aug 14 22:24:45 UTC 2003

IME, releasing the magic smoke from $device is not considered normal
unlesss the device intentionally uses processes like internal
combustion.  

-e

-----Original Message-----
From: up at 3.am [mailto:up at 3.am] 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:19 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Power outage in North East

Actually, Mayor Blumberg just told CNN that the smoke being seen at the
ConEd plant is normal for this situation.  It is also being reported
that
this whole thing started in Ottawa, or an overload of the Niagra-Mowhak
power grid.

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, N. Richard Solis wrote:

>
> I just got off the phone with an old boss of mine.  ;-)  It would
appear
> that there is a large fire at a ConEd plant that has now caused a
> cascading power outage in the Northeast.  Some more plants may have
> tripped offline because of the load they absorbed from the loss of the
> other plant.
>
> If I get more information, I'll post.
>
> Damian Gerow wrote:
>
>  >
>  > 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
>  >
>
>
>

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