[Scan-DC] Radio silence in DC?

[Ed Tobias]

Maybe they should have spent money on new generators, rather than encryption!

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID. Please excuse typos.

Blair Thompson <b_thom at juno.com> wrote:

>Hat tip, Jalopnik:
>
>http://jalopnik.com/uber-driver-takes-3-passengers-on-high-speed-chase-acr-1602747729/all
>
>which linked to this story:
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dr-gridlock/wp/2014/07/09/man-visiting-d-c-says-uber-driver-took-him-on-wild-ride/
>
>which said this:
>
>"A side note: Waters said the hack inspector tried to radio for help from other agencies, but his attempt coincided with an outage of the city’s emergency communications system."
>
>which linked to this:
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/wp/2014/07/09/radio-silence-in-d-c/
>
>where I read this:
>
>"Add this one to the annals of There but for the Grace of God: The city’s emergency communications system was disrupted for nearly a half-hour Tuesday afternoon — a “catastrophic” outage, officials said, caused by a power outage at the Office of Unified Communications in Congress Heights. The normal external power feed appeared unreliable Monday, so officials switched to generators until the issue could be addressed. But, 13 hours later, the generators failed, leaving police briefly without radio coverage, 911 callers on hold, and 311 callers totally out of luck for 16 minutes."
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