Re: IBM Pubs

The part about the thunderstorm and power outage is true, can't say that I
know for sure that everyone was told to go home. Having worked for IBM for
30+ years and Rochester for 21+ years, I would seriously doubt it. Some
departments, some individuals - yes, but the whole site - get real!

As an aside, our facility is right outside IBM's back door - we had a power
glitch from Lightning at the same time, but our UPS's kept us going
smoothly. IBM on the other hand has it's own power substation - they don't
make a UPS big enough to handle that kind of load. They do have select
systems protected by UPS however.

Glenn Van Benschoten  vanbensg@lakeviewtech.com
Director, Product Marketing
Lakeview Technology
3535 40th Ave NW, Suite 200
Rochester, MN 55901
Rochester Office (507)-529-2186
Cell (507)-261-6480
Fax (507)-529-2160
Home Office (507)-280-8043



                                                                                
                                         
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I should note that I have no idea if this is true or not.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Gary R. Patterson
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:42 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: IBM Pubs


On the comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc newsgroup, I saw a post that contained this:

(This was quoted in another message, and the sender information was not
quoted, so I do not know who the source is.)

> A thunderstorm knocked out power to the Rochester site Friday about noon
> CST.  Power was out for an hour, and it was expected to take several
> hours just to get all the local servers back online, much less public
> web servers.  (They sent everyone home for the rest of the day,
> something that cost roughly a quarter million dollars by my
> back-of-the-envelope estimate, so you can imagine how serious this
> problem was.)  They may still be having some problems as a result of
> that outage -- any time you lose power you lose a certain % of disk
> drives, and there are lots of disk drives at the Rochester site.
>
> It's unfortunate that the problem occurred just before a holiday weekend
> like this, since a lot of the people who knew how to take care of things
> were off.  Barring a serious problem, I would anticipate that everything
> will be up and running normally by Tuesday afternoon.
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