Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: lloyd!sunfs3!kent@husc6.harvard.edu (Kent Borg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: San Fransisco Horror Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 89 18:26:58 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Kent Borg Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA Lines: 32 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 465, message 8 of 8 In article telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >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 Maybe at the time you wrote that, but by some time near 8PM PDT (11PM EDT) there where some phones with working long distance service--both incoming and outgoing. I was at a friend's house when the earth rumbled. Being near Boston we didn't feel it, and not watching TV or listening to the radio, we didn't know it happened. We found out when we got a call from another friend. She was calling from her apartment in San Francisco. She had no electricity and didn't have a battery powered TV or radio, so she phoned us to find out what was going on. We turned on the TV to find out. Later we called her back to tell her what we knew. The call to SF took a few tries to go through (maybe 10 minutes worth). We were impressed. Our call to SF was made by AT&T, I am told the sound quality was normal (I didn't talk to her myself). Kent Borg "Then again I could be foolish kent@lloyd.uucp not to quit while I'm ahead..." or -from Evita (sung by Juan Peron) ...!husc6!lloyd!kent