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royal.pingdom.com - 10/20/2008

Mother Nature’s assault on electricity and the Internet

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February 19: A bird caused a substation to catch fire and knocked out power to 6,400 customers (a 2 ½-mile radius) in downtown St. Augustine, Florida. April 5: A big rat managed to short-circuit a substation and cut off power to the central train station in Stockholm, Sweden. (Ok, we’ve focused ...

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