A lot of the subroutines in BHP DMS were named for Haitian loa. It was the name of a Haitian Voodoo loa, a possession spirit. Specifically by a subroutine called SAMEDI. Their physical plant-thermostats, lights, hot water and air filtration-were all handled by BHP DMS, a software system. The three hospitals were all part of the Benevola Health Network. At 3:25 it rolled through Seattle Kellerman, although there it started in the north and went south. UH Southpoint was in Tennessee and Kensington was in Texas. The line of darkness washed across the buildings, leapt the parking lot, split into two parts and then washed north and south simultaneously across a complex of medical offices.Īt 3:21, the same thing happened at UH Southpoint Medical.
It was not life-threatening in the immediate sense, but it wasn’t trivial and it interrupted two nurses and a resident working on a woman in ICU having seizures, a pharmacist counting meds, a CT Scan, a couple of X-rays, and it derailed a couple of consultations.
Everything critical was on back-up but not everything was critical, some of it was just important, and some of it wasn’t even important, unless you consider coffee a life-or-death substance. In its wake, IV alarms went off, monitors re-set. It was a local version of a rolling blackout, a kind of weird utility/weather event. Starting at the east end of the building, the lights went out, and after just a couple of seconds, came back on. McHugh’s new collection, After the Apocalypse, which is available now from Small Beer Press.Īt 3:17 EST, the lights at DM Kensington Medical did the wave.
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