More here: ===== Delhi Telephone Company general manager Jason Miller said the network switching center in Albany that provides cable phone, long distance and select Internet services for much of his company and Margaretville Telephone Company, was affected by the National Grid power outage. The companies lost service from about 12:25 to 4:25 p.m., until the switching center had power from a back-up generator, Miller said. ... National Grid spokesman Patrick Stella said the problems started about 3 a.m. Friday in an underground cable that provides electrical power to several customers in Albany. The buildings affected included telecom and Internet companies, but Stella said he could not speak about any loss of those services. The repair process is fairly extensive, he said, but it should be completed by Saturday at 8 a.m. http://www.thedailystar.com/news/local_news/phone-electricity-outages-hit-ar ea/article_b5028107-48d4-5ecb-bfaa-d3b8251b5745.html ===== -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Muldoon [mailto:doon.bulk@inoc.net] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 8:06 PM To: Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com> Cc: Michael T. Voity <mvoity@uvm.edu>; Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>; outages@outages.org Subject: Re: [outages] 11 North Pearl, Albany, NY - Power issue
On Aug 21, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Frank Bulk via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote:
No generator there?
The National Grid outage was described at catastrophic. The building has 2 Primary feeds, and both of them where knocked out sometime after 3AM. There is a tertiary feed as well, but their appears to be a fault in it, as they cannot bring it up. This power outage is affecting multiple buildings in downtown Albany. The building does provide generators, and they ran for approximately 5 hours, before all of them too suffered some sort of failure (we are waiting on RFO/Post mortem), but I was hearing they where overheating and issues with the radiators, and was watching people carry coolant up the stairs most of the afternoon. They appear to have at least one generator running and fairly stable, but it is coming up on the 5 hour or runtime again. Also there are a lot of people in that building that are not on the building generators. Right now it is a small generator city there with the sidewalks in both the front and back sides of the building covered in various sized rollups, as National Grid is still saying 8:00AM EDT Tomorrow before commercial power is restored. -Patrick -- Patrick Muldoon Network/Software Engineer INOC (http://www.inoc.net) Press any key... no, no, no, not that one