Donald Durel wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 DD> Mike, thanks for the information you supplied.  I tried the
 DD> number you left for the N1BEE BBS and it doesn't answer.  Is
 DD> the BBS up and running or did I catch it down while doing
 DD> its maintance? It was about 7:00PM Saturday night, CDT when
 DD> I tried the number...
The BBS is up 24 hours, although user access is not allowed during Fidonet 
Zone Mail Hour (currently 4:00-4:59 am CDT).  Last Saturday night, much of 
the state had electrical problems connected with a severe storm.  One of the 
main 115 kV feeders into the state failed, and we had 70 volts or so coming 
out of the wall for almost 15 minutes.  Lots of motors caught fire, although 
I quickly pulled the main breakers and I had no damage personally.  The BBS 
computer is entirely protected by a UPS which shifted to battery and caused 
the computer to do an orderly shutdown.  Now you know why the BBS was 
off-line!
 
-- Mike
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