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Re: London Power outage


From: Will Hargrave <will () harg net>(by way of Will Hargrave <will () harg net>)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:05:22 +0100


On Thursday 28 August 2003 22:00, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
I saw it on CNN but it sounds like it wasnt as bad as they wanted to make
out.. frmo what I was told none of the major colos which are all in the
East lost utility and I dont know about stuff in the South which is where
the power was out.. seems theres not much of interest there from a netork
pov.

None of our network (mainly west London) was affected. Media reports that it
just hit [mainly residential] south London, so didn't affect either Docklands
facilities nor the various datacentres in the west (Park Royal etc) and
south-west (Heathrow).

It did knock out most of the tube system by my experiences. Fights at bus
stops; so much for the 'stiff upper lip' ;-)


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