Could just be they have hundreds of alarms and people ringing up and can't answer all the calls as opposed to no backup power ... then again, maybe they recognise you from caller ID. :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Murphy [mailto:barry(a)unix.co.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2009 1:53 p.m.
To: Juha Saarinen
Cc: nznog
Subject: Re: [nznog] Widespread Auckland Power Outage 2009-02-03
My monitored alarm with Safesecure (I believe they are in that area) isn't
working either, do I report that fault here? :P
Nah number just rings, makes me wonder how many other alarm companies don't
have backup power :)
Everyone affected by power and dont have UPS, go have a beer...
b.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:48:51 +1300, Juha Saarinen
On 3/02/2009, at 1:46 PM, Simon Allard wrote:
Its in the herald, it must be true!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10554954
Since they checked with Vector... yes, it probably is true.
Major faults and outages – Current Transpower outage affecting eastern suburbs Date: 03-02-2009 01:31 pm
Transpower's transformers at its Penrose substation have faulted causing an outage affecting approximately 74,000 customers in Auckland’s eastern suburbs.
Must've been Megatron stealing all of Transpower's Spark...
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