Because salt water and electricity are a bad combination, NY has shut down large sections of power as a precaution in preparation for expected storm surges that are likely to flood many of the underground facilities. These precautionary outages will very likely make it a whole lot easier to restore power much sooner after Sandy finishes pounding the area. It's actually a surprisingly wise thing for them to have done. However, for it to work out well, they would have had to offline the back-up generators and disconnect the battery systems as well. I don't know to what extent that will have happened. Owen On Oct 29, 2012, at 20:39 , Lonnie Bozeman <Lonnie.Bozeman@coresite.com> wrote:
They have shut sections of the grid off..
Lonnie Bozeman Operations Manager
CORESITE (NYSE: COR) 900 N. Alameda St. Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA +1 213.327.1204 | Office +1 213.598.1739 | Cell +1 213.327.1289 | eFax
Lonnie.Bozeman@CoreSite.com| www.CoreSite.com
Jim Meyer <jim@geekdaily.org> wrote: Our hosts there are not responding as of 10:58p EDT.
We've got no news but are assuming it's Sandy coming to town.
--j
_______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages