[PING] Any of our sci.space.* colleagues out in Florida Ground Zero

....Those out there in Florida in the middle of that mess, please let
us know your status if possible.

OM

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"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
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...Those out there in Florida in the middle of that mess, please let
us know your status if possible.

About 15 miles north of the path intersection of hurricanes Charlie
and Francis. Winter Haven FL. Damage fairly light this time.
100 miles from the cape, so nothing for you there.
Mainly it has been damn inconvenient with two and a half days of
rain, gas lines and such.

OM

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Long time since I've posted. We made it through with no major problems.
Thanks,

Steve Wachowski

"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
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...Those out there in Florida in the middle of that mess, please let
us know your status if possible.

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
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...Those out there in Florida in the middle of that mess, please let
us know your status if possible.

My poor wussy wife, city girl that she is, panicked when the power went down
for 9 hours. No A/C, and god forbid we actually have to deal with the
children instead of numbing them with the TV.

I thought it was great. Most of a day without all those namby-pamby "modern
conveniences".

I had a chance to read three Peter David novels- part of his "Psi-Man"
series.

Of course, when the power came back on, she started singing and dancing. Now
her cordless phone works.

We ought to have a mandatory power-out day once a year. Wimps.

"Scott Hedrick" wrote in message
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"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote
in message ...
...Those out there in Florida in the middle of that mess, please let
us know your status if possible.

My poor wussy wife, city girl that she is, panicked when the power went
down
for 9 hours. No A/C, and god forbid we actually have to deal with the
children instead of numbing them with the TV.

You're lucky it was only 9 hours.

As of last night my MiL had been w/o power for 30 hours and as far as I know
still doesn't have any.

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
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You're lucky it was only 9 hours.

Yeah, any longer than that without videos to soothe the savage rugrats and
she might have abandoned us.

I had access to a portable welder, which doubles as a generator. If the
outage had continued much longer, I'd have cranked it up, mostly to operate
the fridge. Otherwise, I thought it was good to be without for a while.;

If I'd had the DTs from withdrawal, I suppose I could have cranked up the
fully-charged laptop We had plenty of water and canned goods, and a
charcoal grill. If things got desperate, there's always the cat

Only serious problem we have at the moment is that there's no school
tomorrow, so I get to deal with the rugrats solo. Also, no gas. The tanks at
all the stores around us that were open were drained before we got there.
Fortunately, got plenty of vehicles around to siphon from if needed.

Of course, as soon as the power came back on, we all took nice showers

"Scott Hedrick" wrote:

My poor wussy wife, city girl that she is, panicked when the power went down
for 9 hours. No A/C, and god forbid we actually have to deal with the
children instead of numbing them with the TV.

LOL. And I just spent the weekend *voluntarily without power*.


As the fellow camped next to me said "sometimes getting out of town
for the weekend isn't enough, you have to get out of the century".
http://www.dragonslaire.org/Septembe...rcrown2004.htm

D.
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Scott Hedrick wrote:

Of course, as soon as the power came back on, we all took nice showers

About 35 hours without power ~200 miles south of KSC. I second
the comment on nice showers. ;-)

"Scott Hedrick" wrote in message
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My poor wussy wife, city girl that she is, panicked when the power went
down
for 9 hours. No A/C, and god forbid we actually have to deal with the
children instead of numbing them with the TV.

I thought it was great. Most of a day without all those namby-pamby
"modern
conveniences".

I had a chance to read three Peter David novels- part of his "Psi-Man"
series.

Of course, when the power came back on, she started singing and dancing.
Now
her cordless phone works.

We ought to have a mandatory power-out day once a year. Wimps.

when (Fran?) came through Atlanta back in '95 my entire apartment complex
lost power, and trees were down all through the neighborhood.

I learned how to cook on a gas stove and shower in cold water by
candlelight.

My candyass roommate went looking for a bar with electricity. I'd say God
forbid he should ever be in a really tight situation, but he'd just mooch
off other people and sweet-talk them into fixing things up for him, so he's
got nothing to worry about.

--
Terrell Miller


" A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster

"Terrell Miller" wrote in message
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when (Fran?) came through Atlanta back in '95 my entire apartment complex
lost power, and trees were down all through the neighborhood.

I learned how to cook on a gas stove and shower in cold water by
candlelight.

My candyass roommate went looking for a bar with electricity. I'd say God
forbid he should ever be in a really tight situation, but he'd just mooch
off other people and sweet-talk them into fixing things up for him, so
he's
got nothing to worry about.

Ice storms hit Indiana really bad one year that my wife was living in a
rented house at Purdue. Purdue didn't have any problems (all their power
lines are buried), but the apartment didn't have power for a week. Keeping
food fresh wasn't a problem (the kitchen was barely above freezing), and
they had a gas stove and a gas water heater, so they actually made out o.k.
They were lucky, out "in the country", some people didn't have power
restored for several weeks.

The only real downside (besides being a bit cold) were the huge smoke stains
on the ceilings caused by a bunch of college students who didn't know how to
properly adjust an oil lamp. :-)

Jeff
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