[ale] power

[vernard at gmail.com (Vernard Martin)]

On 9/8/2014 1:20 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Had a power blink that hit the entire campus, hospital, everything at
> Emory. Operating rooms went dark for about 10 seconds then it all came
> back.
>
> There are at least 2 substations that power Emory. The hospital is SUPPOSED
> to be power-outage proof (thus MY concerns for the ebola work!).

> What power outage gear is being used at home by ALE? At work by ALE people?
> Apparently the datacenter here stayed up. But the power outage in the
> operating rooms occured while surgery was ongoing including brain surgery
> with a computer-controlled microscope.
>
I have no battery backup at the moment. the caveat is that at the moment 
I have nothing running at home that I would cry about if I lost it.  :)

And don't worry about the ebola work at Emory.  Lack of electricity 
doesn't play a factor in how the disease is spread.  But you knew that 
already right? :)

V