"Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We finally got our electric power back late yesterday, after 5 days without. >Thank you Alabama Power, one of the many out of state companies who have >come to North Carolina to help restore some sense of normalcy here. > >I haven't heard the latest, but last Thursday there were 1,200,000 Duke >Power customers without power. I would assume that many "customers" would >be the equivalent of 3,000,000-5,000,000 people without electricity. > >We were doing fine here with the emergency generator until Saturday night >when the carburetor iced up. At this point I managed to screw it up royally >by breaking the governor and ending up with entirely too much voltage. We >got water back Sunday morning though, so with the Coleman stove and water we >were at least able to cook and wash. > >Driving around town, it's really a mess. I don't think there's a tree in >the entire Piedmont of NC that hasn't lost limbs, many of which are still >hanging in utility lines.
Man, sounds like Rochester after the ice storm of 1991! (I was without power for a week.) >It's good to be back. Have I missed anything interesting? Dunno. I had mail server problems and have been offline since Friday. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
