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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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The front desk could not access their system to check in customers, and that was only the tip of the iceberg. The elevators weren't running, and people already checked in on upper floors had problems. The phone system was disrupted, varying between "You can't call into or out of the hotel at all" and "You can only call the main hotel number. Direct dialing of specific extensions doesn't work."
And the failure knocked out the feed from the hotel's ISP, so Wifi and Internet access were out.
Power was back by Friday, but all of the other problems that occurred in the wake of the power failure weren't finally fixed until Saturday evening.
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Imagine what would happen if a solar kill shot or an EMP attack took out the whole grid.