Power was restored to most of campus overnight. Our student newspaper did a nice job reporting the breaking news on the paper’s website, while we scrambled to get the official word out.
A couple of buildings are still without power and will be for the rest of the day. The physical facilities crews will try to power up those buildings after hours.
It’s crisis communications time at UMR, where most of the campus is without power. I work in one of the few buildings on campus that still have electricity and web access.
The outage occurred last night — ironically, during a campus celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. I got the call from our facilities director around 1 a.m.
Classes are cancelled this morning, and likely will be this afternoon.
Andy writes! 