Re: DHS letters for fuel and facility access

[Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu () gmail com>]

At my work place there is enough generators, fuel generators.

There is enough time to power things down properly.

The IT infra seems to be working ok, although some remote workers 
complain about a few things about VPN.

There is however worry that the IT infra might not keep up, or that not 
all employees might have access to emails.  To address that, they have 
built a website facing to the Internet with internal announcement info 
to employees. They have also created a registry where the employees 
record their external email addresses so we receive internal 
announcements but on external email addresses, a thing which was more or 
less prohibited in normal times by IT policy.

The internal emergency phone number (two digit phone number only 
available to internals only by landline) has just been shut down.  The 
info circulated announcing it so.  IT is standard procedure in case of 
issues.

My desk voicemail is still active and I can consult it remotely, but not 
sure for how long.  The re-start of desk power typically resets the 
phone and I lose voicemail forever.  I expect that re-start of desk 
power in a few weeks or so, part of standard procedure to re-start power 
routinely.  But I dont expect me to go to my desk any time since now in 
one month to press the button on the phone to set the voicemail active.

Alex

Le 17/03/2020 à 18:21, Hiers, David a écrit :
> Good reminder to test, test, test...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Warren Kumari
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 10:08 AM
> To: Paul Nash <paul () nashnetworks ca>
> Cc: Untitled 3 <nanog () nanog org>
> Subject: Re: DHS letters for fuel and facility access
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:44 PM Paul Nash <paul () nashnetworks ca> wrote:
> > September 2001.  Just after the 9/11 attacks, all of lower Manhattan was shut down.  Out link (IIRC) was to a satellite 
> > farm on Staten island, across the bay to 60 Hudson.  Power went off, diesels kicked in, fuel trucks was not allowed in, 
> > and a few days later we lost all international connectivity.
> We had some interesting failures during 9/11 as well -- for some reason, the UPS didn't kick in, so everything went 
> down - and then came back a few minutes later as the generators came online -- and then went down again ~2 hours later -- 
> turns out that the genset air filters got clogged with dust, and suffocated the diesel.
> This was "fixed" a few days later by brushing them off with brooms and paintbrushes -- by this point they had 
> completely discharged the 24V starter batteries, and so someone (not me!) had to lug a pair of car batteries and jumper cables. 
> They restarted, and ran for a while, and then stopped again.
>
> It turns out that getting a permit to store lots of diesel on the roof is hard (fair enough), and so there was only a 
> small holding tank on the roof, and the primary tanks were in the basement -- and the transfer pump from the basement 
> to roof storage was not, as we had been told, on generator power....
>
> We had specified that the transfer pump be on the generator feed, there was a schematic showing at is being on the generator 
> feed, there was even a breaker with a cable marked  "Transfer Pump (HP4,5)" --- but it turned out to just be a ~3ft 
> piece of cable stuffed into a conduit, and not actually, you know, running all the way down to the basement and connected to the 
> transfer pump.
>
> W
>
>
>
> > Lots of important people lost power as well, so the feds decided to let the diesel tankers in after a few days’ 
> > deliberations.
> >
> >          paul
> >
> > > On Mar 17, 2020, at 11:21 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 17/Mar/20 17:15, Paul Nash wrote:
> > >
> > > > That same fuel shortage killed all Internet traffic to sub-Saharan Africa.  Took us a while to figure out what was 
> > > > wrong with the satellite link to the US.
> > > What year was that :-)?
> > >
> > > Mark.
>
> --
> I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place.
> This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid 
> weasels and that pair of pants.
>     ---maf
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