Hurricane Ike did more than knock out power to 130,000 people in and around Pittsburgh. It is shaping up to be the biggest power outage in 5 years, when power blackouts affected Internet-connectivity (and electricity, obviously) from Ohio and Ontario to the Eastern seaboard. This is all according to an excellent writeup on the Ike outages by my colleague Martin A. Brown over at the Renesys blog.
The linked blog contains detailed analysis of outages in this whole region of the country, with Ohio and Pennsylvania both hit hard, much harder than one might expect from a hurricane. Notable region outages include Ansoft Corporation (192.149.1.0/24), Continental Broadband Pennsylvania, Inc. (209.114.166.0/24), LogicaCMG Inc. (128.129.0.0/16, since 9/13/2008), and two USWeb networks. OK, let me be honest here: I grew up in the Caribbean and I didn’t know that yinz could have hurricane effects at all this far inland. It’s either refreshing or a little bit scary. I’m still trying to figure out which.
Repairs continue, but as of last night 60,000 people in the local area still didn’t have power. If you’re reading this, I assume you’re not one of them. Good luck out there, people.
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1 Renesys in the Morning Paper: the Enduring Power of the AP // Sep 18, 2008 at 7:39
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