From: Daniel Eklund (no email)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 05:27:30 EDT
> On 13 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> >
> > The city of Detroit, Wayne County, Wayne State University, Redford
> > and Livonia were hit by the power failure at 12:45pm. Detroit airport
> > is operating on emergency power. Detroit Public Lighting's computer
> > center also lost power. DPL is hooking up portable generators to its
> > computer center so it can then determine the exent of the outage and
> > when it will be repaired.
I'm sitting in the middle of this problem. Our computer center is
currently running on a DPL generator (since about 1pm yesterday). As of
right now no resolution in sight. Our backbone network is half powered
down at the moment. Last I heard they said that we would have power by
3am (2.5 hours ago).
-- Daniel Eklund Ph: +1.313.577.5558 Manager of Data Network Services Fx: +1.313.577.5626 Computing and Information Technology email: Wayne State University http://ucomm.wayne.edu/~dan
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