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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Ivan and outages
I have some involvement with a telecom/internet company located in Grenada. This was sent to me in the last day or so. > With reference to staff in Grenada, 4 out of 6 involved people are > accounted for. The country as you are probably aware has lost over half > it's buildings. Over 90% of the ones left are damaged. The electricity > will not be restored to the island for an estimated 3-4 months and > communications are currently only possible from cellphones in a couple > of places. > > The office roof collapsed destroying the office and with the rain that > followed, anything remaining un damaged was then drowned. (Technician) > has collected all the hardware and is attempting to dry it out, however > without electricity and with the current state of emergency, we can > neither test it or fly it out of the country. Apparently, there country is under military control; no people allowed in our out. "State of Disaster" has been proclaimed. Also, it is being said that there is a general food shortage. On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: > > I'm looking for operational status information from Grenada, Jamaica, > Grand Caymen, and Cuba. Anyone with clue drop me a note off-list, I > will post a summary. > -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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