Re: San Francisco power outages imminent

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () mail-abuse org>]

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....

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