At 19:08Z (1:08 PM CST), a power line shorted and knocked out 6 buildings
on the east side of caqmpus. At 22:08 Z (4:08 PM CST), we came back up. At
4:45 PM, I restarted my systems.
Much of campus networking is on backup systems or not on at all. I have
no idea if Internet 2 is up, but speedtest.net gives me 100 megs, so I'm
golden, I think. Anyway, I apologize for the outage. More might be coming,
as I have been told, as the power is unstable. They say the full
resolution of the issues won't occur until tomrorow night at the earliest.
Anyone feeding from my noaaport server experienced an outage but campus
networking came back before our power did in my building. The NOAAport
system wasn't affected at all, except it couldn't be accessed for a while.
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Gilbert Sebenste ********
(My opinions only!) ******
Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University ****
E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ***
web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu **
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