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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:blue'>For power conservation the units might automatically shut down data
services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David
Diaz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> surfer@mauigateway.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> nanog@merit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Power outages in Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Being that Miami is my home town. I found it interesting
today that in areas affected by the black out services like verizon EVDO lost
their backbone connections. The towers were up with signal but no one could get
to the IP gateway. Driving a few miles to a lit area provided
connectivity.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>This is a concern for those of us with hurricane experience
in the area.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>David<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Scott Weeks <<a
href="mailto:surfer@mauigateway.com">surfer@mauigateway.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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--- <a href="mailto:robert@ufl.edu">robert@ufl.edu</a> wrote:<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Being in the lightning capital of the world systems are
generally well<br>
protected from power issues. None of our peers have had any issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
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There has been a lot of lightning there recently...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://flash.ess.washington.edu/TOGA_network_global_maps.htm"
target="_blank">http://flash.ess.washington.edu/TOGA_network_global_maps.htm</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://webflash.ess.washington.edu/AmericaL_plot_weather_map.jpg"
target="_blank">http://webflash.ess.washington.edu/AmericaL_plot_weather_map.jpg</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/26cnd-florida.html?hp"
target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/26cnd-florida.html?hp</a><br>
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says: "The company and state officials said the blackout began with a
failure in an electrical substation near the Turkey Point nuclear station south
of Miami, the division of emergency management said. That failure caused other
parts of the system to shut down to protect the integrity of the electrical
grid."<br>
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scott</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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