Re: Big power outage in Ontario ?

[<nanog () cfsdigital com>]

Actually that would be good to have
Power Grid Map of the North East would be useful anyone have please pass
along the mailing list members. We have our Generators running Full Power
Now Hopefully once we get heads up kick over to City Power.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Fendley" <scottf () uark edu>
To: "Malayter, Christopher" <Christopher.Malayter () tdstelecom com>
Cc: "'Mike Tancsa'" <mike () sentex net>; <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:26 PM
Subject: RE: Big power outage in Ontario ?


> I have heard rumours about a fire in the Con Ed facility causing the plant
> to go offline.  Somewhere after that plant went offline, supposedly other
> plants in the grid tripped due to the amount of load they were having to
> cover.
>
> US News on CNN is reporting that this is not an act of terrorism.  Which
> is a good thing?  Anyone have a good map of the US Power Grid and where
> the grids connect to each other?  Might be useful information for the
> network guys to have available for disaster recovery situations.
>
> Scott
>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Malayter, Christopher wrote:
>
> > The power outages in the North East US, also go into canada as far in as
> > Toronto and Ottawa from what US news sources are reporting.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike () sentex net]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 3:29 PM
> > To: nanog () merit edu
> > Subject: Big power outage in Ontario ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone know whats up with the big power outage in Ontario  Canada ?
> >
> > ---Mike