Comments | yanijc: No work today

yanijc

No work today

Feb 17, 2010 11:50

A small plane crashed on takeoff out of PAO this morning took out power for all of Palo Alto. my company is entirely shut down, can't get in the buildings, can't get to email, can't get to anything. There's a little bit of work I can get accomplished with a pencil and paper, but I can't even call my boss because I don't have his number in my ( Read more... )

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neko_san February 17 2010, 20:49:54 UTC

Geeze. Santa Clara (where I work) is fine, tho the power is off at our house. I sure hope it's back up tonight.

yanijc February 17 2010, 21:19:41 UTC

When I went in this morning, there were trucks in the parking lot and lots of guys ferrying all the refrigerated items out of our cafeteria and kitchenettes out to them. The estimate I heard was 20-24 hours before power is back on. I think a lot of people will be buying new milk tomorrow.

neko_san February 17 2010, 22:24:02 UTC

Yuck. This sounds like an excuse to go out to eat tonight - somewhere near work.

terry31415 February 18 2010, 01:35:20 UTC

A distributed generation power grid cannot come too quickly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_generation

Maybe there is something to sort and organize somewhere. Hmmm...probably in a dark room. Hmmm2....you'll probably have to close up shop when the zombie apocalypse happens.

misterajc February 18 2010, 07:06:58 UTC

My company did not lose power, but out ISP is in PA, so we lost our Internet connection. Me, I've been coughing for two weeks so I was working from home anyhow, and I wasn't bothered.

a_steep_hill February 18 2010, 16:37:14 UTC

Apparently the passengers were Tesla employees.