I survived the Great Power Outage

[LavCat]

I was at work (central New Jersey) when the power dropped enough to knock out our computers that were not on a UPS. The dip was followed by a spike, but we thought little of it. The first I learned of a widespread outage was a phone call from an Israeli customer who had just landed in New York. He had me go to CNN and check, since the passengers at the airport had no idea what happened, and there was no Internet! His suspicions were similar to those of your drunks.

My UPS logs from home confirmed the spike, and in addition showed an initial spike before the dip. I have friends who had their network damaged even though it was on a UPS.

North of here the power was out, but we were fine. No free beer however.