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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Washington DC power failures
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Deepak Jain said: > > > I'm sure exploding manholes and the unpredictable outages are so much better > for business. > > Aren't the explosions supposed to be drastically reduced during the > fall/winter season? > > Regards, > > Deepak Jain > AiNET > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > David Lesher > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:19 PM > To: nanog list > Subject: Re: Washington DC power failures > > > > Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said: > > > > > > > > Washington DC power company PEPCO had more underground > > fires at 17th and M streets NW. This has affected > > some circuits out of carriers with facilities on > > 1200 block of L street. > > Note that PEPCO has just started a major rebuild of the much > damned system in Georgetown. It's supposed to take teraseconds to > complete since the local merchants: > > Don't want any outages > > Don't want any street construction > during the business day > > Don't want any noise or dirt... Not really. Freeze|thaw cycle and conductive salty road drainage are likely a good part of the picture. -- A host is a host from coast to [email protected] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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