[Outages] 365main power interruption?

[Seth Mattinen]

Adam Kujawski wrote:
> http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-07-24T214600Z_01_N24247688_RTRIDST_0_UTILITIES-SANFRANCISCO-OUTAGES-UPDATE-1.XML
> 
> SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - Sporadic power outages hit San
> Francisco on Tuesday afternoon, affecting widespread areas including
> the city's downtown financial district.
> 
> About 28,000 customers in San Francisco and an area south of the city
> were affected, said Darlene Chiu, spokeswoman for Pacific Gas &
> Electric Co., the main utility for the city. More than 20,000 of those
> outages were in San Francisco, she said.
> 
> "We are investigating the cause of it," said Chiu, adding that the
> utility is having on-and-off success in reconnecting customers by
> backup circuits.
> 
> Traffic signals in much of downtown San Francisco were not working.
> Bay Area Rapid Transit trains were moving, although some of the lights
> in undergound stations were off, a BART spokesman told local radio.
> 
> The outages began about 2 p.m. PDT, Chiu said.
> 
> The utility is owned by PG&E Corp.
> 

Poor excuse. Aren't they supposed to have generators/batteries? Does 
anybody seriously accept "power outages" as an excuse your servers went 
offline? I wouldn't. What are you actually paying them for if you do?

~Seth