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> Forwarded from Marty Schoch <[email protected]> Some pictures of the UMD campus from a student after the tornado hit. http://www.glue.umd.edu/~eliu/tornado1_glue.htm > >2 people dead, 50 injuried, 3000 evacuated. > >Two tornadoes move across 70 miles of Northern Virginia, Maryland >and Washington DC. Winds were measured at a peak of 206 miles >per hour. University of Maryland: College Park has canceled >classes today, and Maryland's Governor has declared a state of >emergency in Prince George's and Howard counties. Tornadoes are >rare in this part of the country, and even rarer at this time of year. > >The area has many different Internet facilities, data centers, >and companies. Tornadoes generally create rather narrow >paths of destruction. Public Internet performance measurements >show two distinct, but minor blips near the time of the tornadoes. >It does show the importance of having an "all-hazard" response >plan, instead of concentrating on only one threat. > > > > Marshall Eubanks [email protected]
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