On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > As you may have heard, we've been having a spot of weather lately. Tuesday > Morning at about 8:30AM a tree took out some powerlines a couple hundred > yards down the road. It has now been about 42 hours, and PG&E says that > they might have power restored by 11PM on Thursday. Last night, the crews > went out and repaired the wires. I thought it would be a fun technical > challenge to try to get some photos of them working at night: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623254140926/ > > It turns out that the 8 year old RV battery that ran my UPS is now an > ex-battery. It also turns out that it weighs 123 pounds, which explains why > it was so difficult to lug up and down those steps. Fortunately, when I took > it over to a friend's house to charge it today, I also had a marine > battery, so, when I got home tonight, I was able to run my computer for a > bit.
20100119-LRC41993 is particularly good. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
