Re: power issues for manhattan/telco-hotels

[Jon Stanley <jstanley () rmrf net>]

Does anyone have status on 111 8th Ave, 60 Hudson, or 1 State Street Plaza?  I posted from work, but it seems that our 
external email is fsck'ed at the moment.  Sorry for the duplicate when it comes...

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:08:47PM +1000, Terence wrote:
> > > anyone have any idea if power is being restored, or if the facilites running
> > > through 60 hudson, 25 broadway, etc al are at the mercy of existing diesel
> > > supplies?
> >
> > 25 Broadway is on generator.  Supposedly they have 48 hours of fuel.  I
> > haven't heard about 60 Hudson or 111 8th Ave.
>
> CNN has reported that a whole substation located near the WTC has been
> destroyed, and that the only source of AC will be generators brought in
> today.  I'd say that given people are still using cellphones from inside
> the rubble of WTC, that the telco infrastructure that will get first
> priority will be cell basestations, and not isp's...
>
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> Terence C. Giufre-Sweetser
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