Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: San Fransisco Horror Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 89 05:08:45 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 457, message 1 of 9 At the time this is written, chaos is reigning in the Bay Area, and all telecommunications are knocked out. The latest death count is about 200 people, and this may be a low estimate. A large fire is burning out of control and has destroyed much property. I wish nothing but the best to our readers in the San Fransisco and Oakland area, and I hope that as communications are restored we will receive detailed reports of the disaster, particularly in reference to telecom activities. Berkeley is totally off line at this time, and email contact is not possible with the sites in the San Fransisco area. We seem to have been hit with so many disasters recently. First came the storm on the east coast; then a few days ago, the storm in the south which affected Texas and Louisiana.....and now this new horror. Patrick Townson