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DeadKenny
14-08-2003, 23:20
In case you find things going down as all of NY as well as Detroit and into Canada, have no power.

Not terrorist related but apparently a failure at a single sub-station that's caused a cascade across the eastern side of the US because the system is so old and no redundancy seems to be built in! Crazy.

This could explain outages on the net.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1100431,00.html

Pritch
14-08-2003, 23:22
Is that where Google is?

Google's not working! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

dingosar
14-08-2003, 23:28
working ok from here :confused: :confused:

homealone
14-08-2003, 23:31
Originally posted by dingosar
working ok from here :confused: :confused:

still cached?

Richard M
14-08-2003, 23:35
Google is based in Mountain View, California so they are not affected.

Pritch
14-08-2003, 23:35
Originally posted by Drudge
Working OK here in NE Lancs but S......L.....O.......W

Yeah, my mistake. I got "Not working at all" confused with "Unbelieveably slow"

danielf
14-08-2003, 23:44
Originally posted by Pritch
Yeah, my mistake. I got "Not working at all" confused with "Unbelieveably slow"

Lightning fast here :shrug:

Jerrek
15-08-2003, 07:16
Originally posted by Roger K
Google is based in Mountain View, California so they are not affected. But in all probability your traffic is routed through New England.

Tonight sucked big time in Toronto. Yeck.

Nidge
15-08-2003, 12:42
It's never been so fast long live the power cuts :D :D :D :wavey: :wavey: :wavey: