Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-14 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 02:08 AM 14-09-05 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And reported Oct 2004: http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com -Hank threat models for huricanes are different that earthquakes. (or is that one of those disaster+geography

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
threat models for huricanes are different that earthquakes. (or is that one of those disaster+geography equations?) For one thing, if you use natural-gas powered gensets, you are virtually guaranteed to go off-line after an earthquake. For another, after an earthquake you will have to be

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-13 Thread Steve Sobol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:21:59 -, Reeves, Rob said: We've been told by our field tech in LA that One Wilshire had lost power for a bit, but it is now restored. I don't know the duration of the outage, but our equipment there is on DC and did not go down. So -

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-13 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
It's also interesting to note that, at least by some estimates, the brief power outage in L.A. yesterday took down more networks than Hurrucane Katrina: http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170702966 Of course, So. California is pretty network-dense, but what does that say about

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: It's also interesting to note that, at least by some estimates, the brief power outage in L.A. yesterday took down more networks than Hurrucane Katrina: http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170702966 Of course, So. California

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-13 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there is a difference as to network going down for 3 hours and network going down for 3 months... Semantics. :-) BTW - care to speculate what will happen if cat5 hurricane hits LA? :) Or maybe we should be thinking of 8+ earthquake No

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-13 Thread Todd Underwood
folx, On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:28:09AM +, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: It's also interesting to note that, at least by some estimates, the brief power outage in L.A. yesterday took down more networks than Hurrucane Katrina:

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-13 Thread bmanning
BTW - care to speculate what will happen if cat5 hurricane hits LA? :) Or maybe we should be thinking of 8+ earthquake -- William Leibzon threat models for huricanes are different that earthquakes. (or is that one of those disaster+geography equations?) --bill

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread matthew zeier
Suppose so - http://tinyurl.com/bpbz5 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/sns-ap-la-power-outage,0,3767081.story?coll=la-news-alert matthew zeier wrote: I'm hearing rumors of a power outage in LA - any truth? I lost access to my gear up there and the NOC phone is fast busy.

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread Jared Mauch
I'm seeing a number of customers that appear to have gone down in the past hour or so, mostly from 19:05-20:25 time frame. there's also a blurb on yahoo news of an outage http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050912/ap_on_re_us/la_power_outage - jared On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread prue
Yep. LA got hit with a power outage that hit downtown and the San Fernando valley according to reports. Power was restored to USC campus which is about 4 miles from downtown at about 1:30 PDT, for an outage of about half an hour. Walt

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread brett watson
On Sep 12, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:    there's also a blurb on yahoo news of an outage http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050912/ap_on_re_us/la_power_outage AM radio news is reporting a "wrong cable cut" by the department of water and power folks...  they're saying "no ties to

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread Ashe Canvar
My equiment at 1200 W. 7th Street is unreachable. Can anyone confirm if one wilshire is affected ? -ashe On 9/12/05, brett watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: there's also a blurb on yahoo news of an outage

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
CNN is reporting that power is starting to be restored to some areas afected by the outage. - ferg -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

RE: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread Reeves, Rob
Of Ashe Canvar Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 5:08 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: LA power outage? My equiment at 1200 W. 7th Street is unreachable. Can anyone confirm if one wilshire is affected ? -ashe On 9/12/05, brett watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12, 2005, at 1

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread ravi pina
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:49:13PM -0700, brett watson said at one point in time: On Sep 12, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: there's also a blurb on yahoo news of an outage http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050912/ap_on_re_us/la_power_outage AM radio news is reporting a wrong cable

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread Kevin
I've been dealing with a data center outage due to this, and power just came back up a few minutes ago. Halon dumps are only fun from the outside. Kevin Kadow

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread Henry Linneweh
Utility Error Blamed for L.A. Blackout http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050912/ap_on_re_us/la_power_outage -Henry --- Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been dealing with a data center outage due to this, and power just came back up a few minutes ago. Halon dumps are only fun from the

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:21:59 -, Reeves, Rob said: We've been told by our field tech in LA that One Wilshire had lost power for a bit, but it is now restored. I don't know the duration of the outage, but our equipment there is on DC and did not go down. So - who in LA is going to be

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread Romain Komorn
OneWilshire did lose power but their generators did their job just fine. Getting up to any data center space there was impossible on the other hand. They have enough current to run the entire building, just not the elevators, the lights in the stairwells, or the key-card locks on the data center