Harvard, MIT, Kennedy School of Government +17,000 Power Outage + Back up Generator Fail

[link to www.thecrimson.com]

Much of Harvard slipped into darkness for nearly two hours Thursday afternoon, resulting in the cancellation of classes and events, disruption of internet access, and the relocation of hundreds of students to the Science Center and the Quad, where power remained on.

The outage impacted a large swath of Cambridge, including most of Harvard Yard, the River Houses, and graduate student housing, according to Harvard Vice President for Campus Services Lisa Hogarty. The Kennedy School of Government, the Business School, and MIT were also affected.

The failure of a transmission line near Kendall Square knocked out power for nearly 17,000 customers, said Michael Durand, spokesperson for NSTAR, the electricity provider for Cambridge. Power was restored on campus by 6:14 p.m., Hogarty said, and service to all of Cambridge was restored by 7 p.m.

Hogarty explained that some parts of campus did not lose power because the University uses five distinct NSTAR electricity feeds, some of which were unaffected.

Around 6 p.m., back-up generators powering emergency lights and security systems began to fail, which would have disabled swipe access and locked students out of buildings. In anticipation, administrators dispatched dorm crew members to hold open doors, according to an email sent to dorm crew and obtained by the Crimson.


[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]

"Power Outage in USA on Friday, 30 November, 2012 at 05:11 (05:11 AM) UTC.

(compare that time with what was written about this from MIT"
"MIT, Harvard, and the surrounding areas lost power from 4:26 to 6:37 p.m." yet they write 5:11. how very.)


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A widespread power outage has been reported just outside Boston where MIT and Harvard University are located. NStar utility spokesman Mike Durand says about 17,000 customers are affected by Thursday’s power outage in an eastern part of Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston. He says the outage is related to a transmission line and is being investigated. NStar’s outage website says about 27 percent of its Cambridge customers are affected. The area includes Kendall Square near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Square. Transit authority spokesman Joe Pesaturo says the area’s Red subway line is experiencing delays because of the outage. He says no Red Line trains are stuck in tunnels. Traffic problems also are reported in the area."

i am willing to bet you with all that has happened today...arizona soc sec getting bombed and made all hush hush

the weird "emp" that took out all power in a portion of russia, even radio, everything.

and the bridge collapsing today....

syria under lock and key from the rest of the world

egypt going crazy

and drudge and cnn reporting on FOOTBALL or the POWERBALL while all this goes on is no accident.

harvard (and skull and bones), mit, and future government officials being targeted? that's HUGE.
and back up generators failing?

and on THIS day.
and hardly any reporting.

smells fishy to me.

Last Edited by pink cat on 11/30/2012 09:29 PM