[Novalug] DIY water level sensor for server room

Mark Smith mark@winksmith.com
Mon Sep 28 17:54:50 EDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:04:44PM -0500, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Mark Smith wrote:
> 
> >>No harder to explain than the squirrel than gnawed thru the high voltage
> >>input lines over at Fairview Park in the early 90s. Managed to trash
> >>power to the entire building that day.
> >
> >the difference is that affects one building.  having these fibre lines
> >go down would affect tens of thousands of buildings and businesses.
> 
> 	Didn't some squirrel cut off power to the whole state of 
> Connecticut plus lower New York a few years back?

i saw that episode of quantum leap.  iggy told them to plug in a
blender or something in upstate NY.  that's what really caused the
blackout.

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Mark Smith
mark@winksmith.com
mark@tux.org



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