Unspecified "Electrical Malfunction" leave one of Phoenix AZ largest buildings without air conditioning.

Note the media making a joke out of this......how would you like to spend a week without air conditioning in a skyscraper.

Towering inferno? Oh, cool it

An air-conditioning outage at one of the city's largest office buildings had tenants hot under the collar this week. Tammy Karth, general manager of One Renaissance Square, said the indoor heat wave began Monday evening when an electrical malfunction left the cooling system without power.

Karth said a replacement part would be installed over the weekend and the building should be back to normal by Monday.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/0115office.shtml

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 15, 2000

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It's MINUS 25 outside here today.....I just plugged my car in so I have a chance of starting it in an hour or so......

I'm going out for lunch....I'll poll all the patrons and waitresses when I get there, but I don't honestly think any of them will give two hoots about air conditioning not working quite frankly.

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), January 15, 2000.

I'll just repeat this....how would you like to spend a week without air conditioning in a skyscraper without windows?

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 15, 2000.

Hey Craig my heart bleeds for you, go roast in Phoenix.

-- Mabel Dodge (cynical@me.now), January 15, 2000.

Unspecified *electrical malfunction*??? Like this has NEVER happened before in the last 30 years.... Your point being????

-- Rob McCarthy (celtic64@inficad.com), January 15, 2000.

An unspecified electric malfunction that LASTS A WEEK? A part for an A/C "electrical system" that takes a WEEK to get? Sure. Either they have the most incompetent electricians in the country or theres another problem

-- Yeah Right (yeahright@sure.com), January 15, 2000.

Didn't good ol' Scary Gary make some doomer prophesies about HVAC systems going down in big office towers due to embedded systems failures? Wasn't that a real hoot?

Who could believe any such thing could occur, right? Nothing could ever happen due to an embedded device failure. Just ask any of the big-league pollies, they'll tell you. Computer-controlled building environmental systems don't pose any Y2K failure threat.

Knckkk, chuckle, ahhumpff, chortle, ha-hah, ahumff, ha-hah-ha-hah, ha- haa, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA, BWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAA!

Okay, what's the economic impact to Phoenix from all the businesses affected from this event? What if this is the regional Federal Reserve Bank or the regional bank transaction clearinghouse?

What's the regional impact? National and international? What's the personal impact for each of the employees in this building, if they can't work in that building and lose several week's salary? How many times is this situation going to repeat and what will the cumulative impact be?

And what if the next building to be affected is someplace that the businesses can't just close up shop till things are fixed say a hospital, police headquarters, prison, nationwide railroad traffic dispatch center or an electrical grid control center?

Dominoes anyone? The chips are almost done and the real game is ready to begin.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), January 15, 2000.