Re: East Coast outage?

[Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>]

At 01:31 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Aaron D. Britt wrote:
> I just lost 80 circuits (Voice and Data), across multiple states on the
> East Coast in the last 10 minutes.  Is there a Northeast power outage or
> fiber cut that anyone knows about?

CNN speaks:
        Major power outage hits New York, other large cities

        Thursday, August 14, 2003 Posted: 6:28 PM EDT (2228 GMT)

        NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck 
dozens of
        cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.

        http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html