Re: San Francisco power outages imminent

[Wayne Bouchard <web () typo org>]

Think of it as an acid test of everyone's backup systems. :-)

More than one has failed due to a bad battery, out of feul, failures
in the UPS whilst the generator kicks in.. and, of course, because
there was no generator or ups to begin with..


> On 06/14/00, "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () cybernothing org> wrote: 
>
> >     Word is they're not capable of handling the current demand (it
> >     is the second day of what feels like a serious heat wave, with
> >     temperatures over 90 degrees all over the Bay Area), and power
> >     may be shut off on a rotating basis, a block or a few blocks at
> >     a time, if the load cannot be reduced.
>
>       Okay, just received word that they're doing it: rolling black-
>       outs for 90 minutes at a time, around the Bay Area (not just in
>       the city.)
>
>       http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2000/06/14/power.DTL
>
>       It'll be interesting to see what kind of outages this causes;
>       for one thing, Sean's power may go out.
>
>       If power goes out in the NOC and there's nobody around to
>       monitor it....
>
> -- 
> J.D. Falk                                             "Laughter is the sound
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