[outages] 11 North Pearl, Albany, NY - Power issue

[Mike Lieman]

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 at outages.org>
wrote:

> > On Aug 21, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Frank Bulk via Outages <outages at 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
>
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> Patrick Muldoon
> Network/Software Engineer
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