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Barry Murphy

11 Jun 2006 11 Jun '06

3:59 a.m.

Looks to be auckland CBD, hamilton and my partner cant get any radio signal.. Barry

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Drew Broadley

11 Jun 11 Jun

4:01 a.m.

I turnt my jug on... sorry. The cup of milo was worth it, two sugars, lots of milk. On a more serious note, Hamilton is back online. Barry Murphy wrote:

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Looks to be auckland CBD, hamilton and my partner cant get any radio signal..

Barry

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Callum Barr

4:05 a.m.

Looking out my window in the CDB - I can see no lights... We are running on UPS/Generator, not looking too flash at the mo! Callum On 6/12/06, Drew Broadley wrote:

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I turnt my jug on... sorry. The cup of milo was worth it, two sugars, lots of milk.

On a more serious note, Hamilton is back online.

Barry Murphy wrote:

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Looks to be auckland CBD, hamilton and my partner cant get any radio signal..

Barry

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Barry Murphy

4:08 a.m.

Alright im going home...

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Looking out my window in the CDB - I can see no lights... We are running on UPS/Generator, not looking too flash at the mo!

Callum

On 6/12/06, Drew Broadley wrote:

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I turnt my jug on... sorry. The cup of milo was worth it, two sugars, lots of milk.

On a more serious note, Hamilton is back online.

Barry Murphy wrote:

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Looks to be auckland CBD, hamilton and my partner cant get any radio signal..

Barry

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Dan Clark

4:21 a.m.

plenty of power here, send your colo down here in Dunnerz :) and snow for that matter Dan On 6/12/06, Barry Murphy wrote:

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Alright im going home...

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Looking out my window in the CDB - I can see no lights... We are running on UPS/Generator, not looking too flash at the mo!

Callum

On 6/12/06, Drew Broadley wrote:

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I turnt my jug on... sorry. The cup of milo was worth it, two sugars, lots of milk.

On a more serious note, Hamilton is back online.

Barry Murphy wrote:

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Looks to be auckland CBD, hamilton and my partner cant get any radio signal..

Barry

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Tony Wicks

4:40 a.m.

Dan Clark wrote:

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plenty of power here, send your colo down here in Dunnerz :) and snow for that matter

Dan

haha... you do know what a thin and venerable set of fibers connects Dunedin to the rest of the country then ?

http://www.vector.co.nz/news/153/ Power outage in the Auckland area (12/06/06) Auckland is currently experiencing a significant power outage affecting the Auckland City and Manukau City areas except for parts of Wiri, Otahuhu, and Takanini. The cause is a fault on the Transpower Network where a earth wire has snapped and fallen across the 110 kv feeder from the Otahuhu substation. All efforts are focused on restoring power as soon as possible. North Shore and Waitakere cities are unaffected. For more information please contact: Philippa White External Communications Manager Vector Limited Mob: 021 579 522 DDI:09 978 7638 On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 09:40 +1200, Tony Wicks wrote:

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Dan Clark wrote:

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plenty of power here, send your colo down here in Dunnerz :) and snow for that matter

Dan

haha... you do know what a thin and venerable set of fibers connects Dunedin to the rest of the country then ?

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Dean Pemberton

5:23 a.m.

Both Stuff (http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3697922a10,00.html) and internal company reports are saying that there are brownouts across CHCH as well. Dean Geoff wrote:

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http://www.vector.co.nz/news/153/

*Power outage in the Auckland area (12/06/06)*

Auckland is currently experiencing a significant power outage affecting the Auckland City and Manukau City areas except for parts of Wiri, Otahuhu, and Takanini.

The cause is a fault on the Transpower Network where a earth wire has snapped and fallen across the 110 kv feeder from the Otahuhu substation. All efforts are focused on restoring power as soon as possible.

North Shore and Waitakere cities are unaffected.

For more information please contact: Philippa White External Communications Manager Vector Limited Mob: 021 579 522 DDI:09 978 7638

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 09:40 +1200, Tony Wicks wrote:

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Dan Clark wrote:

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plenty of power here, send your colo down here in Dunnerz :) and snow for that matter

Dan

haha... you do know what a thin and venerable set of fibers connects Dunedin to the rest of the country then ?

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Erin Salmon - Unleash

5:28 a.m.

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Both Stuff (http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3697922a10,00.html) and internal company reports are saying that there are brownouts across CHCH as well.

Everything is online for us in the CBD, although the power looks a bit wobbly out in Riccarton, but it's still on. Erin Dean Geoff wrote:

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http://www.vector.co.nz/news/153/

*Power outage in the Auckland area (12/06/06)*

Auckland is currently experiencing a significant power outage affecting the Auckland City and Manukau City areas except for parts of Wiri, Otahuhu, and Takanini.

The cause is a fault on the Transpower Network where a earth wire has snapped and fallen across the 110 kv feeder from the Otahuhu substation. All efforts are focused on restoring power as soon as possible.

North Shore and Waitakere cities are unaffected.

For more information please contact: Philippa White External Communications Manager Vector Limited Mob: 021 579 522 DDI:09 978 7638

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 09:40 +1200, Tony Wicks wrote:

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Dan Clark wrote:

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plenty of power here, send your colo down here in Dunnerz :) and snow for that matter

Dan

haha... you do know what a thin and venerable set of fibers connects Dunedin to the rest of the country then ?

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Drew Whittle

4:45 a.m.

Tony Wicks wrote:

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haha... you do know what a thin and venerable set of fibers connects Dunedin to the rest of the country then ?

There are at least 4 ways out of Dunedin that I can think of: Satellite, Telecom,TelstraClear, BCL. Drew

Drew Whittle

4:49 a.m.

Tony Wicks wrote:

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haha... you do know what a thin and venerable set of fibers connects Dunedin to the rest of the country then ?

There are at least 4 ways out of Dunedin that I can think of: Satellite, Telecom,TelstraClear, BCL. Drew

Jonathan Brewer

5:27 a.m.

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From: Tony Wicks [mailto:tonyw(a)tonyw.com] Sent: Monday, 12 June 2006 9:41 a.m. Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Anyone know why power is down?

Dan Clark wrote:

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plenty of power here, send your colo down here in Dunnerz :) and snow for that matter

Dan

haha... you do know what a thin and venerable set of fibers connects Dunedin to the rest of the country then ?

I guess the fibre has brought knowledge and enlightenment to Dunedin for some time, but does that make it venerable? /me wonders why this impressive fibre hasn't been mentioned in the NZ Internet History...

Barry Murphy

4:56 a.m.

My colo is fine too :) I'm on the bus home wit my laptop and t3g...

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plenty of power here, send your colo down here in Dunnerz :) and snow for that matter

Dan

On 6/12/06, Barry Murphy wrote:

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Alright im going home...

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Looking out my window in the CDB - I can see no lights... We are running on UPS/Generator, not looking too flash at the mo!

Callum

On 6/12/06, Drew Broadley wrote:

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I turnt my jug on... sorry. The cup of milo was worth it, two sugars, lots of milk.

On a more serious note, Hamilton is back online.

Barry Murphy wrote:

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Looks to be auckland CBD, hamilton and my partner cant get any

radio

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signal..

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Barry

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Lindsay Druett

5:17 a.m.

Drew Broadley wrote:

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I turnt my jug on... sorry. The cup of milo was worth it, two sugars, lots of milk.

On a more serious note, Hamilton is back online.

Hamilton never went off line. We did however experience a cascaded event of brownouts that resulted from the cause of the Auckland power outage.

Ian McDonald

5:22 a.m.

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Hamilton never went off line. We did however experience a cascaded event of brownouts that resulted from the cause of the Auckland power outage.

No there are definitely parts of Hamilton out - Ruakura, traffic lights etc. -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

Lindsay Druett

8:28 a.m.

Ian McDonald wrote:

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Hamilton never went off line. We did however experience a cascaded event of brownouts that resulted from the cause of the Auckland power outage.

No there are definitely parts of Hamilton out - Ruakura, traffic lights etc.

Hey Ian, Funny that, I had conflicting stories suggesting otherwise, such as Innovation Waikato (which is in Ruakura) stayed up. But it was a huge brownout, and I would expect a lot of failures resulting from this. I would also expect that various local feeders on various levels tripping out because of excessive in rush current, eg. motors restarting. I heard that the traffic lights went down in Hamilton and that was pretty much city wide which suggests that the central computer (located in the Municipal building) that controls the traffic lights may well have had a problem caused by the brownout. On top of all that, various places in the sticks on the WEL Networks area suffered outages due to bad weather, and with the varying restore times clearly backs up WELs suggestion that it was a local problem due to bad weather rather than from the TPNZ Otahuhu Substation incident. Anyway, the upshot of all this demonstrates the importance of back-up power (which is an operational matter).

Ian McDonald

9:39 a.m.

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Funny that, I had conflicting stories suggesting otherwise, such as Innovation Waikato (which is in Ruakura) stayed up.

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From what I here other parts of Ruakura were down and the traffic lights were near Ruakura.

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But it was a huge brownout, and I would expect a lot of failures resulting from this. I would also expect that various local feeders on various levels tripping out because of excessive in rush current, eg. motors restarting. I heard that the traffic lights went down in Hamilton and that was pretty much city wide which suggests that the central computer (located in the Municipal building) that controls the traffic lights may well have had a problem caused by the brownout.

I've just had verified that the council system did not go down. This matches my experience of other traffic lights being OK when I travelled through them at the time other lights near Ruakura were down. -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

Jo Foster

9:42 a.m.

Just got a message, Paikakariki to Pukerua Bay on State Hiughway One has been closed due to high winds and seas. I guess in a way this is a good workout for the emergency backup systems. Now if only people didn't ring the phone companies to complain about the power being out.... Jo Foster

Jo Foster

9:43 a.m.

I apologise, Kapiti Coast north of Wellington. -----Original Message----- From: Jo Foster [mailto:sneeble(a)paradise.net.nz] Sent: Monday, 12 June 2006 2:42 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Anyone know why power is down? Just got a message, Paikakariki to Pukerua Bay on State Hiughway One has been closed due to high winds and seas. I guess in a way this is a good workout for the emergency backup systems. Now if only people didn't ring the phone companies to complain about the power being out.... Jo Foster _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

Jo Booth

1:08 p.m.

On 12/06/2006, at 14:43 , Jo Foster wrote:

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Just got a message, Paikakariki to Pukerua Bay on State Hiughway One has been closed due to high winds and seas. I guess in a way this is a good workout for the emergency backup systems. Now if only people didn't ring the phone companies to complain about the power being out....

I thought that was due to the large truck full of vege oil that got nicely spread down the highway...? Was closed for a few hours. back trucking through now.. Speaking of traffic, are the Wellington wix cams still up? There was a little blip on our power in Ngauranga not and hour or so ago. It all seems to happy recover. I was just explaining the importance of upgrading our UPS the other week. ;) -Jo

Mark Foster

2:05 p.m.

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Jo Booth wrote:

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On 12/06/2006, at 14:43 , Jo Foster wrote:

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Just got a message, Paikakariki to Pukerua Bay on State Hiughway One has been closed due to high winds and seas. I guess in a way this is a good workout for the emergency backup systems. Now if only people didn't ring the phone companies to complain about the power being out....

I thought that was due to the large truck full of vege oil that got nicely spread down the highway...? Was closed for a few hours. back trucking through now..

The first Police Notice: http://www.police.govt.nz/news/media/update.html?id=2798 Time: 14:00 12-06-2006 District: Wellington Incident Type: Weather conditions and oil spill Location: SH 1, Pukerua Bay to Paraparaumu What happened: Police advise State Highway 1 between Pukerua Bay and Paraparaumu has been closed due to an oil spill and adverse weather conditions. Roading contractors are in the process of attempting to clean the oil spill and clear debris from the road. No diversions are in place. A further posting 1 hour later (id=2799) shows the highway reopened with a reduced speed limit as at 1500hrs. Also noted at 1730 there was a fault with the Barrier Arms for the railway lines through Paraparam which caused some traffic mayhem. (id=2802). Mark.

Jeremy Brooking

10:05 a.m.

Jo Foster wrote:

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workout for the emergency backup systems. Now if only people didn't ring the phone companies to complain about the power being out....

Who do I call to get my car out of the garage? Modern technology rocks! Till you cant power it :(

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Barry Murphy
Callum Barr
Dan Clark
Dean Pemberton
Drew Broadley
Drew Whittle
Erin Salmon - Unleash
Geoff
Ian McDonald
Jeremy Brooking
Jo Booth
Jo Foster
Jonathan Brewer
Lindsay Druett
Mark Foster
Tony Wicks