Any IT pro watching on TV — or make that trying to watch — Sunday’s football game in Buffalo between the Bills and Chargers missed a good chunk of the action, yet also had another chance to see the havoc than can be played when a problem of some sort pulls the plug on the electricity.
Oftentimes the culprit is manmade: A ditch digger isn’t careful or an auto wreck brings down a pole — or, as was the case in Buffalo, helium balloons become entangled in power lines.
Sometimes, though, it’s Mother Nature making your life miserable. Pingdom, a Web monitoring company, has compiled a list of the latter just from this year and reading it will give you a renewed appreciation of how many different ways the lights can go out.
