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Car decapitated a power pole at about 1:00 PM yesterday. Power was out until after 8:00 PM. This was an unforeseen embedded problem (car was embedded in pole). Adequate equipment and manpower was available. Problem was easily identified and fix was obvious. Parts were readily available. Contingency plans were in place. Company was Y2Powerpole-Ready. Simple problem, simple fix, power was out for over 7 hours. If it is not so simple will a holiday weekend be enough time? Say, 72 hours? Good news is; generator worked great! Lights, heat, microwave, TV, water, security, all the comforts of life. Glad I have my preps. Thanks for the encouragement!!

-- UR2Blame (upower@jps.net), December 01, 1999

Answers

COOL! Hey UR2Blame:

I LOVE that description of the "embedded problem"!

It's nice to have a crowd around that encourages you, but keeps you honest by trashing you every time you slip eh? I'm glad to call 'em my friends!

You, and all the others, remain on my mind and in my prayers.

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), December 01, 1999.


UR2, when you playin' Vegus? That was great!

-- Hokie (nn@nn.com), December 01, 1999.

If you run that generator in Feb. 2000, you will have hordes of hungry hoodlum marauders around your home and throwing bricks through your window and attacking you and your family and stealing your food!!!! Sell that dammed generator and buy candles!!! Be less conspicuous!!!

-- bbb (bbb@bbb.com), December 02, 1999.

Heeheeheheheheheheheh

-- drunk drivers (warming@up.act), December 02, 1999.

UR2,

Don't sell that generator. Just wait to use it this summer, to make...ICE!

By summer, half the population will be dead (If the current BITR doesn't hold) so there shouldn't be much of a "people problem". There should be pleanty of generators for those who want one, as well as fuel (in abandoned cars)and oil to run them, at least for a few years.

You also might want to purchase a small window unit A/C for use this summer, while making all that ICE. They are really cheap this time of year!

Good luck.

-- GoldReal (GoldReal@aol.com), December 02, 1999.



GoldReal - sounds like you're in the MadMax zone, do ya think it'll be that bad ?

-- Dan G (earth_changes@hotmail.com), December 02, 1999.

BB get your head out of your butt! Do you really think that those of us who have generators that are large enuff to power our homes in the "manner in which we have become accustomed" are stupid enuff to run the lights at night when everyone else is in the dark and using candles or oil lamps??? Give us a break! If my neighborhood doesn't have lights at night, neither will this household. We will run the gen to pump water, wash/dry clothes, jack up the freezer, shower and cook. About 4 to 5 hours twice a week. It will be in the morning and no you cannot hear our gen unless you are standing close to it. We live well off the road and I have gone out and listened when its on. So give us some credit for having a little gray matter!! And this old broad has lived off the grid, been in a position where supplies were purchased once a year and brought in by barge before freeze up. So don't flame me for having a generator and not having a clue. I have been there and done that and can damn well do it again if I have to.

Taz

-- Taz (Tassie123@aol.com), December 02, 1999.


Hey Taz, You go girl!! (and I haven't forgotten :) )

on de rock

-- Walter (on de rock@northrock.bm), December 02, 1999.


Taz:

Wow, just tell it like it is. I've been there, too.

-- Familyman (prepare@home.com), December 02, 1999.


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