On 24 Jan 2001, at 17:29, Scott C. Best wrote:
> Akshally, I got my stuff hosted at Exodus too, and
> one reason it's there is because of the backup-power facilities
> they've got. I mean, it's a whole floor of generators and UPS;
> it's scary cool. So, maybe half the lights will go out at Exodus
> during an outage, but the cages stay lit.
Wow. It's nice to hear direct from someone at Ground Zero.
> Also, these "rolling blackouts" only hit for 90 minutes, then move
> on to another neighborhood. And if your Exodus facility happens to
> be next to a hospital...then that neighborhood gets skipped
> completely. It worries me how well thought out it is...
I read in one of the newsrags (Newsweek?) about hospitals being in
the dark, as well as some schools.
In Southern Wisconsin, when the threat of rolling blackouts was
real in summer of 1999, the amateur radio operators were poised to
help. Is California ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service)
active down there?
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David Douthitt
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