Hello everyone,
A little heads up. Around 18Z we experienced an outage of around 15
minutes. We're 60 miles west of Chicago, and we're looking at a quarter
inch of ice on power lines with 30 MPH wind gusts right now. My servers
stayed up, but the router in our building crashed and it took some time
for it to come back online. That resulted in complete loss of network
services to our building. We're now losing power on the north side of the
city, and power lines are sagging around the city now as the weight of
the ice on them continues to increase. Our airport AWOS apparently had a
power interruption as it was down for a while.
I'm hoping we don't have a full-blown power outage, but the good news is
that if we do, we can backfeed power from two different sources: the
Chicago area, and the nuke plant to our west. Electricians manually have
to throw switches to backfeed power in case one of the sources is down.
Usually, that results in a 2-3 hour downtime if they're coming from off
campus, or 1-2 hours (sometimes less) during business hours.
Still, for those who use me as primary, ensure your ldmd.conf has other
sites as a backup, just in case, if you want all the data from this storm.
And finally, Merry Christmas, happy 2010 and happy holidays to all. May
all your packets get through!
Gilbert
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Gilbert Sebenste ********
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Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University ****
E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ***
web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu **
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