Planned Power Outage at 3WTC on Sunday, February 26

The World Trade Center Facilities Superintendent has informed us that PGE
Underground has a main transformer with a bad network protector and is off
line. Power needs to be off to replace this network protector. While this
situation is inconvenient, it is an excellent opportuity to put our power
backup systems to a test under optimimal circumstances, e.g., on a Sunday.
Listed below is information about the outage. Please review since it may
require some action on your part.

PGE must turn off its main power supply to the building from 6 - 7 a.m. and
then again from 3 - 4 p.m.
The building has a backup generator that will kick in five minutes after the
main power supply shuts off.
Enron has a UPS that will provide us with five minutes worth of power.
If everything goes well, there should be no impact.
If there are problems with the backup generator or UPS, we could experience a
power outage.
We should not experience a loss of phone service even in the unlikely event
of a power outage.
It would be prudent to take precautions if you have any systems that may be
impacted by a power outage. You may want to log off your computer and turn
it off on Friday before you leave the office.

Someone from our local IT group will be here on Sunday in case any problems
arise. Please contact Dave Steiner if you have any questions or concerns.