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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Detroit Power Failure
> On 13 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > > The city of Detroit, Wayne County, Wayne State University, Redford > > and Livonia were hit by the power failure at 12:45pm. Detroit airport > > is operating on emergency power. Detroit Public Lighting's computer > > center also lost power. DPL is hooking up portable generators to its > > computer center so it can then determine the exent of the outage and > > when it will be repaired. I'm sitting in the middle of this problem. Our computer center is currently running on a DPL generator (since about 1pm yesterday). As of right now no resolution in sight. Our backbone network is half powered down at the moment. Last I heard they said that we would have power by 3am (2.5 hours ago). -- Daniel Eklund Ph: +1.313.577.5558 Manager of Data Network Services Fx: +1.313.577.5626 Computing and Information Technology email: [email protected] Wayne State University http://ucomm.wayne.edu/~dan
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