[Rhodes22-list] looks like the power is back

[Michael Meltzer]

I seen that toothless redneck :-) do you have one that goes from location to location or each have a exclusive territory :-)

MJM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] looks like the power is back


> Houses will take the blow better.  Usually, mess up a
> roof & knock out a few windows but that about it
> unless it is a really big tonado.  If you open your
> window when a tonado is coming; tonados will sometime
> suck all the air out of a house when it flys over; you
> generally won't get your windows blown out.  Trailers
> are not tied down to the ground properily.  Even a
> small tonado will turn most of them over and make a
> mess that the TV stations deem news worthy.  Plus
> there is always a toothless redneck that the news
> people can interview:-)  They really like that. 
> Steve
> 
>  
> --- Michael Meltzer <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com> wrote:
> > if ny lost power more offen it would not been a
> > problem, the last power lost was 1977 in the city.
> > BTW why do Tonados only strike
> > trailer parks???? we do not get them up here and
> > thats the only image you see on the news, evey oonce
> > and a while it seems a house
> > gets hit and wonder "Can the build a house that will
> > not be knocked down"
> > 
> > MJM
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
> > To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> > <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 9:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] looks like the power is
> > back
> > 
> > 
> > > 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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