Power outage in NY city and state.

[Bill Glaze]

In the same vein, I look at the water towers around here, (Greensboro,
NC) and consider just what would happen if we lost power for long.
While there's water in the towers, it sure doesn't get up there by
magic.  And, while I've got a well, the pump works on electricity.  I've
been thinking about a standby generator to at least power some of the
house for essentials.
Think about trying to buy gas to get out of town; no electricity to pump
it.
We've sure become a technological society.

Bill Glaze

Bob Kane wrote:

> We just got our power back, slightly less than 24 hours after it went
> out. Our town has its own power plant, but it did not help. Seems it
> has been so long since they had to do a "black" start, the auxillary
> generators required to do so would not run. no one had checked
> them. We had water, our town also has its own water treatment facility
> and storage tower. But, we host a large waste treatment plant serving
> a large part of the Detroit Metropolitan area, and its backup
> generators also did not function. Some thunderstorms came through this
> morning and at 10:00AM the place was nearly full with no power to
> process the waste. So in spite of having water, we were strongly
> encouraged not to use it. I'm sure the city council meeting will be
> hopping Monday night.
>
> "Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com> wrote:
>
>      Forget gas...we need water. I'd love to know why our local
>      independant TV station has the forethought to have redundant
>      generators, so we can all watch summer reruns on our propane
>      powered TV's...but our utility company...who by the way has
>      the convenience of sitting on the largest fresh water supply
>      on the face of the planet, doesn't have a generator to pump
>      it with. EEEERRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGG!!!
>
>      Mark...dry in Cleveland.
>
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: Del Rykert [mailto:drykert at rochester.rr.com]
>      Sent: Fri 8/15/2003 1:01 AM
>      To: discussion at nsrca.org
>      Cc:
>      Subject: Re: Power outage in NY city and state.
>
>      Powers is back on here at 9:30p. Looks like we can make Glen
>      after all. Gas was going to be an issue.
>
>      Del K. Rykert
>      AMA - 8928
>      NSRCA - 473
>      Kb2joi - General
>
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Henderson,Eric To: discussion at nsrca.org
>      Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:05 PM
>      Subject: Power outage in NY city and state.
>
>
>
>      OK - would all of you guys who started charging up their
>      mega-jillion watt Li-poly's when Jason placed so highly in
>      the worlds, - PLEASE TURN THEM OFF - NY NEEDS THE POWER BACK
>      ASAP.......
>
>      EVL-1
>
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