Re: Power Failure/Blackout - How'd We Do Folks ?

[Hans <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck Lewis wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>  
> OK, everyone that was impacted by the monster power failure; how are you
> doing ? Run your UPS's down ? All your drives spin back up when power
> was restored ? Move to a hot sight ? Hot sight in the same power zone
> and no go, etc. Survive upper management freaking out, etc ? Get to go
> home yet ?
>  
> Let us know and hope everyone came through it OK !

No one is speaking up?

Coincidently, I was taking a couple of vacation days off on Thursday and 
Friday. Sylvana and I had a couple of baby sitters lined up for both days 
so we could celebrate our anniversary going out to dinner, shooting some 
pool (her choice!), and seeing a movie. I took the black-out in stride, but 
Syl was really quite angry when all that had to be cancelled. Still, the 
candles were romantic, and we could see the stars outside, rather rare for 
this city.

Fortunately, power came back on at our house 12 hours later, while most of 
the rest of Scarborough was still in the dark. We think we got our power 
back sooner since we're relatively close to a police station and a water 
tower, but who knows?

I have no idea how the systems at work managed. I suspect few bothered going 
to work on Friday. Unlike almost all of our customers, we really don't need 
24/7 uptime for our lab machines.

For us in Ontario, the really interesting events are yet to come. The 
political fallout for the party in power will be fun to watch. An election 
was expected in the fall, but I wouldn't be surprised if they delay the 
call until spring.

Cheers! Hans