Verizon outage in Southern California?

Tue Oct 18 19:59:37 UTC 2005

Olsen, Jason wrote:

>>Anyone have more information?  It seems to have started 
>>around 02:30 local time this morning.
> 
> We lost connectivity (WAN/Internet/POTS) to our Long Beach site at
> around 2:27 AM PDT today.  Several news agencies are reporting it on the
> web (hooray news.google.com), citing "mechanical glitches" or bad
> weather.

Bad weather could definitely be a factor.

Southern Cali electric utilities are notoriously unreliable during bad 
weather, especially up in my neck of the woods. It's been raining pretty 
steadily here for the past two days; I drove 150 miles from Apple Valley to 
northeast San Diego this morning and it was even raining down here in SD -- 
may still be raining now, I just haven't looked outside. I even heard a 
radio report that a funnel cloud touched down in the foothills outside Los 
Angeles; I forget exactly where. (That doesn't happen very often around here.)

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