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

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

Last  broadcast  estimate was  50 million  plus people were  hit by the 
blackout

At 10:03 AM 8/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> 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
>
>
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