[outages] 8x8 outage/111 8th Ave NYC

[Owen DeLong]

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 at coresite.com> wrote:

> They have shut sections of the grid off.. 
> 
> 
> Lonnie Bozeman
> Operations Manager
> 
> CORESITE
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> Jim Meyer <jim at 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
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