jammer wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:53:44 -0400, Rich wrote:


SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE


Not in Texas! Not Me!

What part of Texas?

And where'd he find a 100-year-old gas grill?

Dale

Go back a hundred years? Not me! My Mom
will be 100 years old in September. She says, "you can keep
the old days - they were awful!" Mom knows best :-)

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"FBCS" wrote in message
...
Last year my microwave went out, you should have seen us, we didn't know
what to do. Things as simple as heating up a baby bottle or water for tea,
just to heat something up was a chore. We actually had to cook like ten
years ago. What we take for granted is right.
Rich wrote in message ...
SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with
less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE

100! God bless her. The things she has witnessed in her lifetime. Awsome.
"Nedra" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Go back a hundred years? Not me! My Mom
will be 100 years old in September. She says, "you can keep
the old days - they were awful!" Mom knows best :-)

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"FBCS" wrote in message
...
Last year my microwave went out, you should have seen us, we didn't know
what to do. Things as simple as heating up a baby bottle or water for
tea,
just to heat something up was a chore. We actually had to cook like ten
years ago. What we take for granted is right.
Rich wrote in message ...
SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with
less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE

yeah.. well you guys got your own power grid just for Texas.

jammer wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:53:44 -0400, Rich wrote:

SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE

Not in Texas! Not Me!



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http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.

I am shocked to learn our power grid is third world technology.

Rich wrote:

SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE





~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List
http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.

Grid? Whats a grid? I've just got the old coop electric company. Lost it for
8 hours the other day nothing unusual just fired up the old trusty geneerator
and kids continued on with their tv show. Gee to be unprepared no way are my
fish gonna go without thier filtration.

Bob in rural Alabama

DT wrote:

jammer wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:53:44 -0400, Rich wrote:


SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE


Not in Texas! Not Me!

What part of Texas?

And where'd he find a 100-year-old gas grill?

Dale

When we moved from northern Vermont to Raleigh a few years ago, we were
unpleasantly surprised to find that we lost power more often than we did in
our 8 years with Vermont Electric Coop. (Although there was a truly
memorable ice storm that brought down transmission towers in Quebec.)

I believe that it's going to take a long time (and much finger-pointing)
before the cause of this outage is found (and why it spread so far!), but
the most incredible thing in my mind that this outage, covering 9300 square
miles or so, happened in less than 10 seconds?????

Shaking my head and grateful for power,

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC





"Bob Koerber" wrote in message
...
Grid? Whats a grid? I've just got the old coop electric company. Lost
it for
8 hours the other day nothing unusual just fired up the old trusty
geneerator
and kids continued on with their tv show. Gee to be unprepared no way are
my
fish gonna go without thier filtration.

Bob in rural Alabama

Boy 100 years old that puts her in 1903 give or take.
What she would have witnessed.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html

54 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
49 years old at the end of the Korean War
41 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
38 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
31 years old in the year radar was invented
26 years old when the American stock market crashed
23 years old in the year of the first talking motion picture
11 years old at the time of the sinking of the Lusitania
10 years old when the First World War began
8 years old at the time of the maiden voyage of the Titanic
2 years old during the great San Francisco earthquake




"Nedra" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Go back a hundred years? Not me! My Mom
will be 100 years old in September. She says, "you can keep
the old days - they were awful!" Mom knows best :-)

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"FBCS" wrote in message
...
Last year my microwave went out, you should have seen us, we didn't know
what to do. Things as simple as heating up a baby bottle or water for
tea,
just to heat something up was a chore. We actually had to cook like ten
years ago. What we take for granted is right.
Rich wrote in message ...
SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with
less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE

Yes... Mom was born September 16, 1903.

I have printed out your list - will take it to her later on
tonight or tomorrow.
Thanks a bunch!

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

Rich wrote in message ...
Boy 100 years old that puts her in 1903 give or take.
What she would have witnessed.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html

54 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
49 years old at the end of the Korean War
41 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
38 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
31 years old in the year radar was invented
26 years old when the American stock market crashed
23 years old in the year of the first talking motion picture
11 years old at the time of the sinking of the Lusitania
10 years old when the First World War began
8 years old at the time of the maiden voyage of the Titanic
2 years old during the great San Francisco earthquake




"Nedra" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Go back a hundred years? Not me! My Mom
will be 100 years old in September. She says, "you can keep
the old days - they were awful!" Mom knows best :-)

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"FBCS" wrote in message
...
Last year my microwave went out, you should have seen us, we didn't
know
what to do. Things as simple as heating up a baby bottle or water for
tea,
just to heat something up was a chore. We actually had to cook like
ten
years ago. What we take for granted is right.
Rich wrote in message ...
SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with
less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:15:39 -0500, DT
wrote:

jammer wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:53:44 -0400, Rich wrote:


SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE


Not in Texas! Not Me!

What part of Texas?

ANY PART!!!!

And where'd he find a 100-year-old gas grill?

Dale

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:37:29 GMT, wrote:

yeah.. well you guys got your own power grid just for Texas.

jammer wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:53:44 -0400, Rich wrote:

SO, We have taken utilities forgranted. We should learn to live with less.
Cook on Gas grills, Ride bikes. Store non perishable foods.
Go back 100 years.

LIVE

Not in Texas! Not Me!

We share it with oklahoma



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~
List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List
http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.

About 4:09 we lost our power for a few seconds and it came back on. An hour or
so later it flickered again. Second flicker had a surge with it that blew the
surgeprotector on my computer. When I went to buy a new one the guy said I was
lucky, a bunch of people were in buying surge protectors with their new
computers because they'd lost everything! BTW he was sold out of surge
protectors and I had to go to Best Buy and they were down to about 6 left!

Karen
Zone 5
Ashland, OH
http://hometown.aol.com/kmam1/MyPond/MyPond.html
My Art Studio at
http://members.aol.com/kmmstudios/K....M.Studios.html
for email remove the extra extention

I also live in the Cleveland metro area, but we were without power for
about 10 hours. My wife and I just sat out by the pond with a couple
of candles and looked at the stars. The sky never got as dark as I
expected. We took a bag of microwave popcorn and emptied the contents
into a deep frying pan and made popcorn on the side burner of our
grill. My fish to surface area ratio is low enough so that I wasn't
concerned about them. I did miss the sound of the water though. It
did force us to actually relax and do nothing, a refreshing change.
It is a shame it takes something like this for us to really relax.


"NJ" wrote in message ...
"K30a" wrote in message
...

Am watching TV and seeing seas of people on the streets of
NYC. My goodness, what a big power outage!

I live in the Cleveland, Ohio metro area; we were without power for 5 hours.
It was manageable, but at the time, of course, we had no idea how long the
power would be off and rumors were rampant. We were told it could take 2-3
days at one point, and I was frantic. We were also told to conserve water,
unplug all appliances, etc. I have two freezers full of food, so I was very
concerned. Not to mention the FRY EXPERIMENT tank which was without
aeration the whole time. Everyone and everything is fine, now. Naturally,
when it first happened, we assumed it was local. When the news came on that
NYC was without power, and then NJ, MI, OH, CT, VT...I have to admit that I
was very frightened of terrorist origins. Thankfully, we are all breathing
easier (and COOLER--we hit 90 today and had put the A/C on for the first
time in a month!) now.

NJ

Can you imagine all those ponders outside on their hands and knees with a
tube blowing air into their ponds?

We live outside Detroit, MI. Power out until 10:00 am, today, SATURDAY. I
wasn't worried about all our food spoiling (which it has). I was worried about
the fish. (New ponder). My husband got the great idea to start up his gas
powered leaf blower, put some hoses off the wet/dry vac on the end of it, and
let that baby rip! Water was splashing everywhere!!! Of course we had to
refill it every hour, but I'm happy to say all our babies survived!!! We not
only lost power, but water, and phone service too! Cathy

I was at hairdressers from 3-4, getting highlites. I had just finished
telling the stylist not to bother with blow drying since it was so hot
and humid outside and I had the top off my car and I wanted to let my
hair dry naturally. Well, the power went off right then LOL.

When I got home I could tell the power had been out because all the
digital stuff was blinking all over the house. I was just about done
resetting everything when the power went out again. My husband was home
from work by this time and we just did BBQ dinner, then sat in our pool.
The power was out just two hours thankfully. I was very happy to have
the pumps running in my tank and koi pond again.

Denise

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