For those curious as to why we can't get to the archives on the Web: >X-Message: #4 >Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:13:43 -0500 >From: Marc Nozell <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >CC: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Archives questions >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >> Also, my natives are getting restless in wanting the newer messages >> on the threaded and searchable pages. Any idea when we'll get past >> mid-December on those? > >As soon as more disks are installed on lists.rootsweb.com, the web >archiver will be back. > >With storms in California, Brian/Karen appear to be pretty busy just >keeping power to RootsWeb. You may want to encourage your mailing >list subscribers to become RootsWeb members and move the new disk >purchase up to the top of their TODO list. ;-) > >-marc > >-- >Marc Nozell http://www.nozell.com > >______________________________ > Hey cousins! If it's been awhile since you have contributed to RootsWeb, please consider sending them a contribution if you can afford it straight away . The following are snips of messages Brian or Karen have sent during the recent bad weather. I have refrained from sending email about this situation before this due to the fact group mailings would not have helped their dramatic situation in the least. Again, I'm concerned about their personal lifes! They are a married couple with full time jobs at Rand Corporation! Due to this admirable couple, we have had insignificant downtime this past week and could have been down most of the time by the sounds of it. Later... Nancy, Listowner Brian wrote Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:10 :00 -0800 (PST): >We're having quite a gale up here on the mountain, and we've lost all >power to the PMC and Birchwood NOCs. > >We're running on batteries now at those NOCs now. The machines at the >Frazier Park and Bakersfield NOCs are unaffected by the power outage, >but they depend on the PMC machines for some services. > >We're doing what we can to keep the site on line, but we may be down >for some intervals for awhile. I'll try to keep everyone informed, >but I may lose the ability to send e-mail. > >Sorry about that. Buying a generator for the PMC NOC is one of the >things we intend to do when RootsWeb's income allows ... ): -B Brian wrote Tue, 3 Feb 1998 15:13:00 -0800 (PST): >The gale was followed by a calm, heavy, wet snowfall. Trees are falling >on power lines, and we're repeatedly losing power. > >We've managed to keep everything up so far by carefully managing our >battery life (last night wasn't one of my better nights for sleep ... ), >but it looks like we may be in trouble if the current outage lasts more >than another couple of hours. > >I'm about to try 4-wheel driving it out to Bakersfield or Los Angeles to >buy a generator. Thanks to the folks who are doing a little impromptu >fund-raising, and wish me luck with the drive ... -B Brian wrote Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:58:10 -0800 (PST): >I made it off The Hill and bought a generator, and it's now >installed at our PMC network operations center. > >[ The trip was kinda exciting, including some of that impromptu > tail-before-hood driving that veteran winter drivers find intensely > embarrassing. But I didn't wind up in any snowbanks I couldn't > get myself out of ... (: ] > >For those who have been wondering *where* Pine Mountain Club is, >it's suburban Frazier Park (if you call a microscopic town twenty >miles west of a tiny town a "suburb" (: ). Perhaps more usefully, >PMC is about 90 miles north and more than a mile above Los Angeles. >The climate up here is almost always breathtakingly wonderful, but >every once in the while we have a really interesting winter storm. > >Like right now. > >As it happens, SoCal Edison has been doing their usual outstanding >job of maintaining their power grid (these folks really are one of >the best utilities in America) and they have people climbing all >over the mountain right now. > >Between their efforts, our batteries, and the new generator, we've >had only about 5 minutes of downtime on our nameserver while we cut >in the generator and about 60 minutes of downtime on our secondary >mailserver as we let it clean out its queues before the power >cutover. We've had -0- down time on our routers, the Web server, >the search engine server, and the main list server. > >We anticipate no further downs exceeding five minutes for the >duration of the storm. > >The new generator isn't exactly a panacea -- the best I could come >up with is a (relatively) little gasoline generator, so one of us >has to sleep down at the NOC and feed the thing periodically. We'll >be saving up towards buying an autostarting propane generator, and >the folks who share the NOC (RootsWeb, Frazier Mountain Internet >Service, ICA, and Earthlink) intend to get the commercial-grade >generator installed before the next winter season. > >I'm going to catch a few ZZZs now in case I wind up having to stand >a shift on the generator. My apologies to everyone; for the obvious >reasons, we haven't made much progress for the last couple of days >(and probably won't for a bit yet) on new accounts and the other >chores. > >Anyway, we didn't go down and now, with the generator, we won't. > >Have fun using RootsWeb, B. > Karen Isaccson wrote Wed, 04 Feb 98 19:54:42 PST: >Subject: If Brian and Karen seem a bit quiet... > >Brian stayed at the Network Operations Center last night until about >4AM, keeping the generator going. (Yup, the power went out again >about midnight, came back about 2AM, but he didn't trust it immediately, >so stayed a bit longer to make sure.) Came home, got some sleep, >we were just getting organized this morning when the power went back >down again, so once again he's at the NOC (me too this time) keeping >the generator happy and RootsWeb on line. > >That means that everything =else= he's been working on, new accounts, the >new server, etc., isn't getting done. Be patient! Sooner or later, >Southern California Edison will presumably have things fixed up to their >satisfaction, and life will return to normal. > >Meanwhile, y'know, all that snow really is quite pretty... > Brian wrote Thu, 05 Feb 1998 19:54:28 -0800: >Yup, I've been watching the weather maps when I can. Scary. > >And even before the next storm hits, things are still pretty wild up >here -- while the generator is keeping us up, it needs more feedings >and attention than a newborn baby. > >SoCal Edison just brought our power up again, so I'm at home and >hoping I can at least get a shower and and some dry clothes before >my next spell of tending the generator. > > - Brian "Hoping He's Not Spending Another Night > at the NOC" Leverich > > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 [email protected]