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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 08/15/2003 : 16:49:11

I think the site went down in the blackout, which is why all the message threads today look as if you've never visited them. I could not get into the web site at that time.

I hope none of our members and visitors were affected.

<img src="http://www.indiscipline.org/cat25/pictures/icon.jpg" border=0>Indiscipline 1978 FK #398

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MattL
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Response Posted - 08/15/2003 : 18:09:29

Hi Jim,
I'll answer you<img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> I am at my wife's new school helping get her computers going. I'm in Ca. too. I think everyone else is down with the power shotrage<img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>, kind of like an apocoliptic movie (however you spell that). The admrial is an English teacher, but I don't think I should bug her with a spelling question now.

Matt/Brigitte Loeffler
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JimB517
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Response Posted - 08/15/2003 : 19:08:39

On further inspection, all my links look non-visited (other web pages as well). We had some problems here in San Diego County internet access, perhaps re-booted the gateway/proxy due to MSBlaster or whatever.

Still, I could not get to the forum yesterday during the first stages of the blackout.

Also, there don't seem to be many new threads today (other than that they all look new to me).

<img src="http://www.indiscipline.org/cat25/pictures/icon.jpg" border=0>Indiscipline 1978 FK #398

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 08/15/2003 : 19:20:07

I've had no problems accessing the site due to the blackout. I'm in Texas.
Derek

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Dave B
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Response Posted - 08/15/2003 : 20:47:52

I especially had problems... Couldn't get the PC to run on candlepower. We were lucky--out for only 7 hours. We were already making plans for cooking all the meat in the freezer on the gas grill today, and then the lights came on shortly after we went to bed.

NOW HEAR THIS... When the generating people have no responsibility for getting the power to their customers, the transmission people have no responsibility for providing adequate generating capacity, and the government decides to let the "free market" sort it out, this is what happens. I've done some work for some of the deregulated utitilities, and it's scary. It aint't the same as telephones, folks.

Stepping down off the soapbox...

Dave Bristle, 1985 C-25 #5032 "Passage" SR/FK/Dinette/Honda in SW CT

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Tim Witt
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Response Posted - 08/15/2003 : 21:44:21

Our power went out last Sunday night. I couldn't tell if it affected my neighbors without driving up the road. When I went to the truck I heard the cows stirring so I figured they knew something was wrong.

The road was real muddy. Prior to the rain it was a dirt road. Anyway the lights were out all over the county. They came back on a few hours later. I couldn't check CNN to see if we hit the news because of no power.

Did anybody see anything about our Sunday night power outage on CNN?
I bet they talked about it for hours.

In Huddleston, between Lone Gum and Dundee in Bedford County, VA. USA

Tim Witt
Smith Mountain Lake, VA
1990 C25 Tall/Wing #5978
& Wellcraft 19 w/4.3 V6

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 08/15/2003 : 22:58:21

apocalyptic

Oscar
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Gloss
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Response Posted - 08/15/2003 : 23:03:27

with all the finger pointing going on, we sure got the finger

Frank Gloss
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MattL
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Response Posted - 08/16/2003 : 04:16:29

Thanks Oscar,
I remember from past entries that your find grammer and spelling to be of great importance. Both of my parents were that way. I remember as a kid my dad getting any printed material and finding all types of mistakes. The material ranged from the local paper to medical journals. My mom didn't learn English till she started school, she grew up in a Polish speaking community in Mass. She could still spot all the mistakes. Myself I with hind sight I think I have a little dyslexia and have always had a difficult time spelling. Most incorrect words I see just get read anyway with out me being able to tell the error. I think this has given me a great ability to figure out personalied licens plates. I think I spelled that wrong but I won't let it stop me. OH, one more thing, my wife is an English teacher. She always gets PO when I can't spell a word too.

Matt/Brigitte Loeffler
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John G-
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Response Posted - 08/16/2003 : 08:58:07

Power went out at 4:11 pm Thurs and came back in the lower Manhattan area just after 2 pm Fri. The last areas got power about 9pm.
Friday was a 90 plus degree day with sticky humidity. No transportation so getting to Oyster Bay was out. I had my laptop and used the battery in 5 minute intervals every couple of hours. All the land line phones worked.
New Yorkers behaved themselves pretty well. Now I’m headed out to the boat. Thunderstorms are predicted but no matter, I just want to be on the water.
 

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 08/16/2003 : 22:39:59

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>with all the finger pointing going on, we sure got the finger <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>

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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 08/17/2003 : 11:19:23

Dave, I couldn't agree with you more. And, Oscar, if anything is apocalypic, it's the lockstep alliance between politicians (of all denominations) and Big Money. The whole infrastructure is crumbling, and CEOs are retiring at 50 with millions in their pockets. If we don't wake up soon, all of us on this site are going to have to figure out how to live on our C25s . . . despite their best efforts, the politicians haven't figured out how to control Mother Nature. They just try to kill her, as they have done with astonishing "free market" success in the Chesapeake, and in the forests (witness Dubya's "new" forest management plan. Translation: logging).

I think one reason I sail is to be regularly reminded that Nature (and her Creator) always win in the end. As somebody said, we all end up being food.

Brooke

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OJ
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Response Posted - 08/17/2003 : 16:40:08

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
. . . Myself I with hind sight I think I have a little dyslexia . . .
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>

Matt, perhaps your mother was a member of DAM - Mothers Against Dyslexia? <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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MattL
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Response Posted - 08/17/2003 : 18:32:51

OJ,
After the last race at Huntington for the High Sierra Regatta I decided that I will not be the one to read the chart.<img src=icon_smile_blackeye.gif border=0 align=middle>

Matt/Brigitte Loeffler
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atgep
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Response Posted - 08/18/2003 : 01:38:00

I heard a Squirrel shorted the line out????? I don't even think we can blame this one on the Canadians. Must have been the Squirrels....<img src="http://www.lolfun.com/funny_pictures/big_nuts/balls_squirrel.jpg" border=0>

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