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

[Frank Bulk]

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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.
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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
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Muldoon [mailto:doon.bulk at inoc.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 8:06 PM
To: Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com>
Cc: Michael T. Voity <mvoity at uvm.edu>; Jason Lixfeld <jason at lixfeld.ca>;
outages at 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 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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