[Rhodes22-list] looks like the power is back

[Steve]

Well, on a bright note, Michael.  From what I heard it
wasn't so bad.  In Arkansas, every time a Tonado goes
by or we have an Ice storm; we lose power.  Sometime
for a week or so.  Are you sure you wouldn't want to
move to the country:-)  When the power goes out, work
shuts down and we all get to go hunting!!!!!
Steve


--- Roger Pihlaja <cen09402 at centurytel.net> wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Sounds like you didn't have a "good week".  I'm glad
> you're OK though.
> 
> The power outage of summer, 2003 looks like it's
> going to be a classic
> example of the interconnectedness & inherent frailty
> of modern technology.
> Overload one high voltage transmission line near
> Cleveland, OH on a hot
> summer afternoon & generate a cascading electrical
> grid failure that cuts
> power over about 7200 square miles of the United
> States & Canada affecting
> about 50 million people!  Lots of folks also lost
> their potable water system
> when the power went down.  Of course, the mass
> transit systems also shut
> down.  I will never forget the sight of all those
> thousands of people
> streaming out of Manhattan on foot via the Brooklyn
> Bridge & thousands more
> having to sleep on the sidewalk in Times Square, &
> this was from just a
> minor glitch in one system.  The entire system is so
> complex & so
> interconnected, it's truly amazing; that, events
> like this don't happen more
> frequently.  Overall, the engineers have done a
> wonderful job of making
> everything work together so efficiently that it
> becomes invisible.  Most
> people never give the technological infrastructure,
> that is literally their
> life support system, a moments thought.  I like the
> way James Burke put it,
> "We all live in a technological trap."  Our
> population is already much too
> large & too densely packed into major metropolitan
> areas to support without
> all this technology.  So, we have no choice but to
> stumble along as best we
> can.  No doubt, the experts will extensively study
> the root causes of this
> power outage.  Technical, regulatory, & managerial
> improvements or
> safeguards will be implemented as a result.  But,
> the system is so complex,
> interconnected, & always changing; that, there are
> always going to be many
> more modes of failure than can be anticipated or
> protected against, even
> without a terrorist attack.  Perhaps, we simply have
> to accept an occasional
> glitch as the price we pay for a high standard of
> living 99.9+% of the time.
> 
> Roger Pihlaja
> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
> To: <jbconnolly at comcast.net>; "The Rhodes 22 mail
> list"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 4:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [ham] RE: [Rhodes22-list] looks like
> the power is back
> 
> 
> > I got big time stuck, 26 floors up and no way to
> get home. As I said to
> the wife "I am spending the nice candle lite night
> with the
> > boss, sweet violet smell in the air(the candles),
> sweating, eating
> somewhat cold leftover from the refigdator(beat me
> who's or
> > what's), the water is out(roof top tank drained),
> toltes are hell and
> worst of all the boss/his  hairy legs are looking
> sexy to me
> > in the some what stipped state we are in.
> >
> > MJM
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Connolly" <jbconnolly at comcast.net>
> > To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 1:39 PM
> > Subject: [ham] RE: [Rhodes22-list] looks like the
> power is back
> >
> >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > How long were you in the dark?
> > >
> > > Did you get stuck in NYC?
> > >
> > > Jim Connolly
> > >
> > > On Saturday, August 16, 2003 12:49 PM, Michael
> Meltzer
> [SMTP:mjm at michaelmeltzer.com] wrote:
> > > > test
> > > >
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