Power issues at this address have affected service to the point where Hibernia is considering it a “Major” outage between NYC and Albany. I currently have one of their 10G waves between NYC and Montreal down as a result. Last update was 2:01pm, no ETTR. Underlying provider has a technician en-route with a backup generator.
FirstLight, one of our carriers, is in a couple of floors at 11NP reported this to me at 1705 - The Albany office experienced a power outage due to an issue National grid is having. National Grids estimate of restoration is Aug.22 at 8am. FirstLight is currently working to restore services as quickly as they can. I do not have an official Firstlight ETR at this time. -FYI -Mike Michael T. Voity Network Engineer University of Vermont On 8/21/15 2:12 PM, Jason Lixfeld via Outages wrote:
Power issues at this address have affected service to the point where Hibernia is considering it a “Major” outage between NYC and Albany. I currently have one of their 10G waves between NYC and Montreal down as a result.
Last update was 2:01pm, no ETTR. Underlying provider has a technician en-route with a backup generator. _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
No generator there? Frank -----Original Message----- From: Outages [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Voity via Outages Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 4:46 PM To: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>; outages@outages.org Subject: Re: [outages] 11 North Pearle, Albany, NY - Power issue FirstLight, one of our carriers, is in a couple of floors at 11NP reported this to me at 1705 - The Albany office experienced a power outage due to an issue National grid is having. National Grids estimate of restoration is Aug.22 at 8am. FirstLight is currently working to restore services as quickly as they can. I do not have an official Firstlight ETR at this time. -FYI -Mike Michael T. Voity Network Engineer University of Vermont On 8/21/15 2:12 PM, Jason Lixfeld via Outages wrote:
Power issues at this address have affected service to the point where Hibernia is considering it a “Major” outage between NYC and Albany. I currently have one of their 10G waves between NYC and Montreal down as a result.
Last update was 2:01pm, no ETTR. Underlying provider has a technician en-route with a backup generator. _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
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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
FWIW, There's a history of cable vault fires, exploding manhole covers, etc in that neighborhood. Infrastructure is Thomas Edison Old... On Aug 21, 2015 9:07 PM, "Patrick Muldoon via Outages" <outages@outages.org> wrote:
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)
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All generators should be fully exercised for 24 hour periods once a year. I learned this the hard way during the blackout in 2003 when one of our roof top generators overheated and caught fire. It hadn't run for more then a couple of hours each year during annual power downs prior to this. On Aug 21, 2015 9:12 PM, "Mike Lieman via Outages" <outages@outages.org> wrote:
FWIW, There's a history of cable vault fires, exploding manhole covers, etc in that neighborhood. Infrastructure is Thomas Edison Old... On Aug 21, 2015 9:07 PM, "Patrick Muldoon via Outages" < outages@outages.org> wrote:
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)
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Thanks for sharing that in-person perspective. Failure of generators is a local concern of mine, too. 98% of the time our generator runs for ~15 minutes each month in its regular test. Then once every few years it runs an hour or two when commercial power is out. But we've never run it for a day or two. I'm sure we would learn a lot. Frank -----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
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
"Pearl" not "Pearle", of course... ( Sadly, not Perl ) ( Hey, I live here... ) On Aug 21, 2015 2:13 PM, "Jason Lixfeld via Outages" <outages@outages.org> wrote:
Power issues at this address have affected service to the point where Hibernia is considering it a “Major” outage between NYC and Albany. I currently have one of their 10G waves between NYC and Montreal down as a result.
Last update was 2:01pm, no ETTR. Underlying provider has a technician en-route with a backup generator. _______________________________________________ Outages mailing list Outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
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