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Ntanel · 08-16-2003, 02:38 AM

Where were you at 410pm ET when the power went out for 60 million people in North America on August 14th, 2003? The say it took only 9 seconds for the whole "Eastern Grid" to lose power and at this time, the exact cause is unknown.

I was in my living room awaiting an arrival from a local convenience store. It was hot and I was thirsty!

We had been suffering from brownouts for a few days and right before the blackout. At 409pm ET the cable box had shut down due to lack of power and then the whole house went dark a minute later. Needless to say the store had no power, so I had nothing to drink except the tap water which was low.

The power came back on right before 11pm ET and we were ordered not to run any appliances or computers for at least 24 hours.

If you could, offer up a MUD log snippet, minus IP/private information, showing the cutoff at or around 410pm ET. It would be interesting to see where MUDs stopped.

None of the MUDs I have access to had any logs close to the time, but one of the routers for IMC logged this before being shutdown by the power outage.

Hub Log (Eastern Timezone):
These are the last three logs.

Thu Aug 14 16:09:32 2003 :: imc_connect_to: connecting to FreeDale
Thu Aug 14 16:09:38 2003 :: imc_connect_to: connecting to AZ
Thu Aug 14 16:10:03 2003 :: imc_connect_to: connecting to ImmU-RoM

Hub1 Log (Pacific Timezone):
Hub1 waited twenty minutes before booting the Hub connection.

Thu Aug 14 13:30:03 2003 :: Close-notify packet for Hub received from *@Hub1.
Thu Aug 14 13:30:03 2003 :: Hub: closing link

I had to edit this to disable emotion icons, boy those are nutty!

08-16-2003, 02:38 AM	#1
Ntanel Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: North America Posts: 162	Where were you at 410pm ET when the power went out for 60 million people in North America on August 14th, 2003? The say it took only 9 seconds for the whole "Eastern Grid" to lose power and at this time, the exact cause is unknown. I was in my living room awaiting an arrival from a local convenience store. It was hot and I was thirsty! We had been suffering from brownouts for a few days and right before the blackout. At 409pm ET the cable box had shut down due to lack of power and then the whole house went dark a minute later. Needless to say the store had no power, so I had nothing to drink except the tap water which was low. The power came back on right before 11pm ET and we were ordered not to run any appliances or computers for at least 24 hours. If you could, offer up a MUD log snippet, minus IP/private information, showing the cutoff at or around 410pm ET. It would be interesting to see where MUDs stopped. None of the MUDs I have access to had any logs close to the time, but one of the routers for IMC logged this before being shutdown by the power outage. Hub Log (Eastern Timezone): These are the last three logs. Thu Aug 14 16:09:32 2003 :: imc_connect_to: connecting to FreeDale Thu Aug 14 16:09:38 2003 :: imc_connect_to: connecting to AZ Thu Aug 14 16:10:03 2003 :: imc_connect_to: connecting to ImmU-RoM Hub1 Log (Pacific Timezone): Hub1 waited twenty minutes before booting the Hub connection. Thu Aug 14 13:30:03 2003 :: Close-notify packet for Hub received from *@Hub1. Thu Aug 14 13:30:03 2003 :: Hub: closing link I had to edit this to disable emotion icons, boy those are nutty!