- Image by Aaron Landry via Flickr
Well, the cams were down for much of the night and this morning due to a widespread power loss in downtown Asheville. I woke up to alerts on my cell phone and when I got to work I found that all the servers, phone system, voice mail, network routing equipment, everything was off. We have power protection, but it couldn’t hold out long enough, and it was emitting an ear-splitting beeping noise (took a little while to figure out how to get it to stop). According to the Asheville Citizen-Times:
About 700 Progress Energy customers in downtown Asheville lost power this morning following an equipment failure.
Utility spokeswoman Martha Thompson said the malfunction occurred in an underground vault housing a substation around 1:30 a.m.
All customers had power restored by 5:30 a.m., she said. The downtown police and fire station was among the locations that lost power.
Everything’s back up now and we’re running smoothly, but in honor of this event I present to you a bit of a musical interlude:
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