Perhaps that is why they are called "Acts of Nature" Weather people, are
faced with the same
problem in their daily forecast. And how often are they wrong? And 24
hours later they explain something you already know, lol. Snowstorms trump,
werewolves in London, any day in the month.
Thanks for your posting!
W
In a message dated 2/2/2009 5:16:26 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Hi All,
Well, it seems I picked a 'ell of a time to write this (below). Turns out
it snowed a fair bit in London today and ended up on US news channels!
Is it an "Act of God?" And is the Act that it that snowed that much in
London or is the Act that He chose to make an ass of me ('er... humble me) and
do
it just ONE DAY day after I wrote that we never hear about such things in
Europe? (Even LESS than a day given the time difference and that I wrote it
at
night Mountain Time and they woke up to it 16hrs later!)
I'm such a fool.
So... Enjoy whatever harmless snow you have and be cautious of any dangerous
snow and ice you might also have! (I'll be putting on my sunscreen and
basking out in the sun... [I'm sure He'll get me for THAT, too!])
Best to All!
--Tod
---- "Tod E. Santee" <[email protected]> wrote:
> John,
>
> I'll agree with pretty much everything you said and add something many
folks don't think about... Most European countries, even the coldest, fall in
rather temperate areas where they really don't get the hard freezes, freezing
rain (that makes wire & limbs heavy), and the wear & tear that hot, hot
summers followed by cold, cold winters can cause. Conditions like the latter
can
begin breaking breaking copper strands within their insulation before any
outward signs or loss of power is apparent. In temperate areas it's quitte
stable, relatively speaking, and more similar to Washington Statre and British
Columbia, Canada. (Warm summers, cool winters ... with ocassional extremes in
hot and cold).
>
> Most western ocean coastal areas aroung 40-60 degrees latitude have
similar weather (as do eastern coasts at 40-60 degrees south latitude).
> ---- "John S." <[email protected]> wrote:
> > i don't mean to offend anyone, but the power lines in kentucky are old
and nobody wants to pay increased taxes. I don't believe that many people lost
power there. There aren't that many there that know about electricity.
> When the houses are connected it is easy to run power lines from one
basement to the next as much of Europe does, but they have power outages too.
They also have power lines and transformers that did not exist until the
1950's
when the Marshal Plan payed to install them all. High tension lines still
criss cross most countrysides there and they have nationalized power. It
should
be better, it is all much newer.
> My brother in law sends crews out to check water pumps and instead of
writing a report they use a camera and a computer to send the images back to
the
high paid goof offs to see if they need to get up nd go fix something. How is
the guy in the wheelchair that much different.
> The big problem with running high power lines under ground is simple.
People cut natural gas feeder lines every day. How often do you think they'd
slice up power lines? Then you have to ventilate the transformers. Those would
be
a thrill to get out of the ground after they explode. 90% of all power
outages wouldn't happen if people would keep trees away from them. Ice is a
pretty
rare problem by itself. When tree limbs are attached you get problems.
people simply will not trim trees just because they might knock out power.
Now.
start fining people when there tree knocks out powr and it might get taken
care
of, but with all the foreclosures, you cant expect banks to even know there
is a tree. If your car take outa pole with power lines you get a bill from e
power company.
> The best and most realistic solution is to get off the grid.
>
> john
>
>
>
>
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