50 MPH Wind and 7 Inches of Rain=42 Hours Without Power

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Just had power restored after a fairly minimal event here in Raleigh. Why so long? Apparently, the power company "forgot" about us. But don't worry about the y2k thing. Everybody under the age of 60 in my neighborhood is now at least a minimal GI.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), September 17, 1999

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Well, that formatting came out wrong. The "But don't worry about the y2k thing" comment is, of course, sarcastic.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), September 17, 1999.

We were very lucky--25 miles west of you, Puddintame, and only sporadic outages not long enough for the house to get warm. Our neighbor's rain gauge showed a touch over 7" as well; ours only measures 5" and I didn't bother to empty it when it reached capacity! A good number of big trees down, broken branches littering the place a bit but, all in all, a mild event. Duke Power did a good job here--do you have CP&L?

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), September 17, 1999.

OG, CP&L. I assumed that CP&L was allocating scarce resources to those in the east who needed it more. I was wrong. CP&L can't even access most of those people. They are simply unorganized.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), September 17, 1999.

Puddintame and Old Git - glad to see your posts again. I was worried for a day or two. At the least, Floyd made me rethink my preps, even tho I'm on the other coast. Take care . . .

-- Margaret J (janssm@aol.com), September 17, 1999.

I dunno what it was, but over here near Crabtree Mall, the power kept coming and going about every 3-15 minutes and would stay off for no longer than 2 minutes.

The only bad thing about it, is the transformer box apparently sits very close to my window. I kept hearing the thing explode every time the power went out along with the really bright white light. I thought a transformer could only blow one time. I guess I'm either mistaken, or it wasn't a transformer.

I had a miserable nites sleep having to hear that for 6 hours.

-- Jay (havocuz@mindspring.com), September 20, 1999.



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