I gather that quite alot ended up getting a power spike when several big breakers blew on a UPS. Phil went in this morning to direct the day shift on the call centre he works with to go down the road as they had no way of switching the calls from the 24hr desk that handles them on the dog watch, they had a hard time getting the calls to go there instead of a black hole last night. He couldn't phone the staff because he couldn't access the system with the contact details or the roster!

Apparently 1900 servers were off line and some of them didn't come back when they got the power rerouted.

 

I dare say that surfing the net may not be a very green activity for a few weeks, Telecom will be burning alot of diesel.