East Coast outage?

Thu Aug 14 22:40:44 UTC 2003

At 01:31 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Aaron D. Britt wrote:
>I just lost 80 circuits (Voice and Data), across multiple states on the
>East Coast in the last 10 minutes.  Is there a Northeast power outage or
>fiber cut that anyone knows about?

CNN speaks:
         Major power outage hits New York, other large cities

         Thursday, August 14, 2003 Posted: 6:28 PM EDT (2228 GMT)

         NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck 
dozens of
         cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.

         http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html