eZanga’s Headquarters experienced a power surge on Tuesday September 25th that caused us to lose power and office equipment. With all of our search technology, power lines, and redundant systems, they were still no match for an unsuspecting bird that lost its life by taking out half of the power grid in our office park.
We lost many of our surge protectors, our cable TV box and it seemed we even lost our X-Box 360 
With the X-Box 360 being down and the release of Halo 3 just hours before, our COO, Angel Pabon, was distraught to say the least.
We went out and replaced all of our surge protector’s with APC units and swapped out our cable TV box. Yet, our poor X-Box 360 was still down. Angel did some quick testing and found that just the power supply was dead. So you will all be happy to know that a new power supply is on order and we’ll soon be gaming again in the office.
Oh, before I forget, one of our devices caught on fire so we had to call the fire department. Five trucks showed up from three different fire stations within minutes of our call. Luckily, nothing else flamed up and we were back to work the next day. Just in case you were wondering, eZanga servers are NOT stored in our offices…we have a secured hosting facility that we use to ensure our uptime and speed.
wow.. that bird must have been a spy!
i recently came across an article about squirrels that shocked themselves on power lines and caused a total of over 16000 blackouts in Georgia 2006. i linked the article on my blog, you can check it out there if you’re interested.
LOL you should give the squirrels the bird
Wow I just read about this , I have to start clicking the small links. I never knew this was here. We’ve had Squirels do it here.
Well that had to sux, sorry to hear this. dang bird.