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September 20, 2004
Being a Bother
The first message on Michael’s answering machine this morning was from Nina, apparently their website was down. Michael noticed that we couldn’t get our mail, either—and that the Matterform site was down. This was a connundrum.
Michael busted out the phone and called the ISP. We got a spooky “all circuits are in use right now, try again later” message. We couldn’t get to the parent ISP’s site either. This was bad.
I bothered all of my friends. First Bill, then Allan, then Mat. Bill said Virginia was hit hard last night, lost some data centers. Allan said Tech had a 3 hour power outage last night, he was putting out fires all over the place, but hadn’t heard anything about the east coast. Mat hadn’t heard shit. But Google didn’t have anything either. Some kind of massive network outage was going on, but we didn’t have any data whatsoever. The prof next door and one of Michael’s clients said Philidelphia was under water, some six inches fell yesterday within a 24 hour period. Another of Michael’s clients who lives in Maryland said it was a beautiful, sunny day. We weren’t sure if the ISP were mainly in Philidelphia or mainly in Maryland. Neither explanation had enough details.
After Michael got back from lunch, he started calling random people in Maryland. Anabelle Lee, David something or other, both got calls from Michael, but neither one could come to the phone. :) Then he tried the ISP. This time, we got through. Apparently, we were off the network due to some kind of manhole explosion.
Manhole explosion? What the hell is that?
So yeah, that’s why I bothered you guys today. Apparently, though I can’t seem to find the reference, some 50 blocks of buildings were cut off from power, phone, and network as a result.
I hope you find this story as amusing as I do. :)
Posted by FusionGyro at September 20, 2004 09:46 PM
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