At 09:51 AM 11/28/04 -0800, Carl Dershem wrote: >Where are you at? Even on the farm when I was a kid (and used >electricity only a few hours a day, except for the well head), we never >lost power that often.
Central Vermont. We have a town power company that does a pretty good job, and it buys power from several sources. But it doesn't take too much to down lines or blow those big pole breakers, particularly in winter. Our outages last winter were from a cars taking down poles, ice breaking branches and downing lines, an exploded transformer (that was a sight!), on-pole breakers opening and needing replacement (that happened twice). There were a few scheduled maintenance outages, plus we have small glitches and dropouts pretty regularly during the summer (electrical storms anywhere in the area can glitch us) and spring ice melt. The calmest time is the fall. >That's not good. Do you at least make it a practice to keep water jugs >filled in case of outage? We have 5 gallons of bottled water on hand in case we're not home when the power goes down. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
