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Microtronix Power Outage Fri March 13th 2026
Hi All! Thanks so much for your patience the past 24 hours with us! As some may know, others not, Ohio got hit with massive winds Friday all day. Sustained winds of 20 to 30 MPH and gusts starting around 40MPH but sometime around 2pm EST they started to ramp up. Last reports was around 70MPH gusts!
Our town was hit hard around 3:30PM EST, 70MPH gusts took out about 15 to 20 poles east of town, and in doing so literally blew up the substation, it was on fire. I-75 was shutdown in many areas north and south to traffic because of winds and downed trailers all day.
This took down the town and about 10 miles around us. Originally we did not know this nor knew how long it would take, in our area we have very stable power and never long outages if we have any. The DC has not had more than a 2 to 3 second blip in 4 years until now.
Around 4:30 we decided to start looking for a genny, by this time all were rented! We drove two hours to get one that we thought would work, last one we could find. Upon using it, it died and refused to come back up. Upon our second attempt we fried the last genny we had access to at around midnight after having about half the DC powered on for about 2 hours, it just fried on us!
At this point we had no other options we were done. This morning we started at it again to find another genny. I want to give a great shoutout to our customer Shield Management in Columbus who offered up an emergency Genny and offered to drive it out to us to get the DC online! You are the superhero of the day! We greatly appreciate it!
After much work we finally got a genny onsite around 12ish today, got it all fired up and started turning racks on about 1pm. Lone behold, no sooner did we turn the network rack on, and AEP brought the power back up! 
So we now had power, back online around 1pm EST today fully steady. We did have a few PDU's die of our own we had to replace, along with our own cpanel servers two of them are being restored now due to mysql issues. But other than that we are all good!
The genny we are keeping as a temporary backup for right now, and we are now fast tracking our end of the year plans for a whole DC genny.
Thanks to all the great customers who sent out Kudos to us personally for the hard work our team was doing all night to try and get everything back up! Your kind words of encouragement were much welcomed!
Here is a bit of news on what happened in this part of Ohio this weekend, it was not fun
We will be releasing a full press release on our website blog by Monday, right now we are still battling with two of our cpanel servers being restored from disk errors, our site sits on one of them haha.
Thank you all again for your patience! Have a great rest of your weekend!
Comments
Good job getting everything back up and running!
When the proverbial shit hits the proverbial fan, some people fold, and others do what needs to be done. Some see it as a mess that gets them down, that's nothing but problems, whereas others realize that regardless of the extra work, it's a chance to make things more robust.
Cheers!
The glass of mango lassi we colo'ed in your facility is spoiled due to lack of electrical cooling.
Thanks John!
Nah, I drank that about 6pm Fri night, figured I would replace when power came back up
Didn't want it to go to waste 