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 Posted: 09/12/05 5:28 pm ::: |
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my power went off for literally ten seconds. that was it. obviously it was a bigger deal than that for much of the city. thank goodness the weather has changed and it's cool. so nice!_________________ Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17 |
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sambista
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| Posted: 09/12/05 5:37 pm ::: |
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| how on earth can one guy cut a cable and the power go out like that? hell, the terrorists can just sit back and watch.
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| Posted: 09/12/05 7:46 pm ::: |
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| how on earth can one guy cut a cable and the power go out like that? hell, the terrorists can just sit back and watch. |
Word. Has W tried to ask if we feel safer/better off then we did four years ago? Cause the answer would be no.
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pilight
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| Posted: 09/12/05 7:49 pm ::: |
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| Sass wrote: |
| sebibb wrote: |
| how on earth can one guy cut a cable and the power go out like that? hell, the terrorists can just sit back and watch. |
Word. Has W tried to ask if we feel safer/better off then we did four years ago? Cause the answer would be no. |
Anyone want to guess why John Kerry didn't ask America that question? Is there anyone in the US that felt safer in November 2004 than they did in January 2001?
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CamrnCrz1974
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| Posted: 09/12/05 8:38 pm ::: |
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| sebibb wrote: |
| how on earth can one guy cut a cable and the power go out like that? hell, the terrorists can just sit back and watch. |
Sad, but true, Bibb
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| Posted: 09/12/05 9:40 pm ::: |
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| the employee had accidentally cut a cable, setting off a chain reaction of surges that shut down a string of generating stations, much like a circuit breaker operates in a home. |
It paints a rather poor picture of the power network design (or complete lack of maintenance) that a cascade effect like that is able to occur.
Sounds like a smaller-scale version of the big blackouts you guys had a few years ago (in the north-east?). I would have thought that important lessons would have been learned from those events.
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| Posted: 09/12/05 9:45 pm ::: |
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| I would have thought that important lessons would have been learned from those events. |
Left coasters always struggle when it comes to learning from history.
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| Posted: 09/12/05 11:18 pm ::: |
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| pilight wrote: |
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| I would have thought that important lessons would have been learned from those events. |
Left coasters always struggle when it comes to learning from history. |
Oh here we go with pilight's Cali-bashing again.
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| Posted: 09/13/05 12:22 am ::: |
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| jammer, I've found that east coasters as a whole seem to like bashing west coasters. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
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