North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Power outage in San Francisco
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Rob Liebschutz wrote: > slowly as we pull in power feeds from mobile generators. The China > Basin complex where we are located has been quite a scene, with cables > running out the to roof and down the side of the building to > generators running in the courtyard below. Any photos on the web? > There's been alot of > cooperation amoungst providers with Sprint and TCG sharing spare power > capacity on the generators and pulling wires to other providers in the > building. MFS has also been helping their customers with power > restoral. MCI has a big mobile generator in the courtyard as well. > The power for the emergency lighting in the complex (multiple 6 story > buildings) lasted only a few hours and we're all running around in the > halls with flashlights. Any possibilty to write up a case study to help other people plan for how to deal with this kind of an emergency? Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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