Subj : FidoGazette Vol 11 no 18 Page: 5
To   : All
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:02

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    Yesterday's Power Outage
    By Marc Lewis, 1:396/45

    Long story accompanies this, Janis.

    Earlier yesterday evening there was a shooting in the adjacent
    apartment complex.  Some dude reportedly shot his wife and was
    barricaded inside his/her apartment.  The police cordoned off
    the street and no-one was allowed into or out of our complex.
    Then a bit later on the lights went out.  Scuttlebutt had it
    that the police had turned off the lights in an effort to force
    the man out...  Which made no sense whatsoever; the grid segment
    that went out covered a fairly large area, affecting some
    15-18,000 customers.  And it stayed off for, from as best I
    gather, some 4+ hours.  A call to the automated outage reporting
    system got an immediate computer response that an outage had
    occurred and that they were working to correct it asap.  Doesn't
    sound like something the police would have done; had they wanted
    to cut power to the man's apartment all they had to do is pull
    his meter or, at worst, pull the main switch for that building -
    - not shut down 1/6th the city.  (Duuuh!)

    Then to top it off, this morning around 7:15 I started up all my
    machines again and noticed Binkley warning me "No Dialtone".
    And sure enough, the phone line was dead.  A call to AT&T's
    automated system at 7:30 brought an off-the-wall computer
    response that they were closed and that normal business hours
    were from 7AM to 8PM...  What's wrong with this picture folks?
    It's 7:30...  Then a second part of the automated system asked
    the phone number and said repairs would be completed by Friday
    at 5:30PM.  5 minutes later the dial tone came back on.  Weird.

    Hopefully this evening will prove to be completely unremarkable.

    All the best,
    Marc


    FIDOGAZETTE  Vol 11 No 18    Page  5         May 03, 2017


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