I’m currently dealing with what I deem to be a Catastrophic Power Failure. In my book this a power outage that exceeds the UPS protection with no indication of when the power will return. It seems our local substation has ceased serving us power, someone is one their way but a fixed time cannot be given by the power provider. All the onsite UPS have now exceeded their backup time and powered off taking most of the servers with them and I wasn’t onsite at the time to ensure they were shutdown properly.

A larger company might be dusting off their DR plans right now but I don’t have that luxury, even the coffee machine isn’t working - now that is serious.