<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">I find this very interesting as well</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">“<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Open Sans", "Open Sans Hebrew", Arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> The Federal Aviation Administration said an air traffic control tower at the Nashville International Airport lost phone and internet capabilities around 1 p.m. because of a phone line outage. </span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Open Sans", "Open Sans Hebrew", Arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Open Sans", "Open Sans Hebrew", Arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Memphis Air Traffic Control Center, which handles high-altitude traffic out
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [outages] Explosion in Nashville</font>
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Why would you use natural gas for your backup power??? That just causes issues like this.
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