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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050811outage,0,6108555.story?co ll=chi-news-hed > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Robert Bonomi > Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:17 AM > To: nanog@merit.edu > Subject: Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN > > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:06:05 +0000 (GMT) > > From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN > > > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > we had a loss of comercial power(coned) in the downers grove terminal. > > > terminal is up on generator power now. > > > > > > > that seems to map to the internal firedrill as well, anyone else hit by > > this event? > > > > Electric utility had a sub-station burn up. resulting in a medium-sized > geographic area without power -- something like 17,000 residences > according > to news reports (no numbers on 'commercial' custeomrs provided). > > AT&T has a facility in the affected area, and were also without > utility power. > > Rumor mill says that Sprint had a (moderately small) number of > T-3 circuits > affected, as well. > > >