[Info-vax] US Broadband

[William Pechter]

In article <cltq80Fstu5U4 at mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>
>This house came with a generator.  The previous owner said they only had
>to use it once.  We just went thru the worst winter I have seen in a while
>(last tuesday's prediction was 0"-1" of snow - I had 7" snow followed by
>nearly an inch of ice) and I haven't had to use it yet.
>
>bill
>
>-- 
>Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
>billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
>University of Scranton   |
>Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>   

When the nearest substation's completely flooded out and under water, electric
delivery becomes problematic.

The 13 day wait until restoration with under 40 degree night temporatures
My service comes in underground so there weren't any wires down.
First Energy's spent millions doing the remediation to the wires after
Sandy by doing some major cutting of trees around the local wires.

The outages caused by lines down were all fixed in under a week.
I'm still debating the whole house natural gas generator...

Meanwhile -- your connectivity can be resolved for UUCP over ham radio 
perhaps.

Bill








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