Blackout

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Hi All
I was just curious as to how many of our fine members got caught in the Blackout.:wave

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not me, but do those who lost it have electric yet? When I went to bed, they were still without.

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Some of them do ,but it will take a while to get the grid back up to speed

:)

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My daughter was visiting us, had a barbeque anyway. The only problem for us was that we could not have ice cream with our pie because we did not want to open the freezer door! Power back on here about 2 a.m. today. Good chance to look at the stars last nite.

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Forgot to add, my wife is a coffee addict, she goes out to the trusty Trillium in the driveway, turns on the propane, voila, she's got her coffee! Too bad the hydro came back on, I was planning on breakfast out in the driveway in the Trillium...

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Here in a suburb of Kingston Ontario our hydro was back on at 10:00 last night. My parents right in the city came on at 4:00 am. We currently have a boil water advisory in our area. Many parts of Ontario are not expected to have hydro for the next few days and the rest are being asked to conserve by not using air conditioners, doing laundry or taking showers. Some places are not to flush the toilet even.

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Here in Wisconsin we did not lose power and this morning I discovered a positive aspect of the blackout. I received about 80% less spam e-mail than usual.:)

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I got stuck, Literally.
I was 45 minutes from the end of my shift when the power went out.
4000 feet underground in a mine.
I can't say enough about how nice it is(severe sarcasm mode on) to spend 10-1/2 hours in a small room with a bunch of belching,farting, smelly miners,and to top that off two of them snored so loud no one else could fall asleep.
However, I must say that our local hydro crews did an outstanding job of shunting power around to get us up and out asap.
If you have't ever been underground, you just can't begin to understand the word darkness.
it's darker than when you close your eyes in a dark room.
There is an absolute lack of any light when you turn off your caplamp that is very eerie, not scary, just very eerie

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We understand that darkness. My husband also works in a mine, but not as a miner. He works on a physics project in the Soudan Underground Mine State Park. If you take the historic tour, they turn off the lights, and it is amazing. They are in a huge room tho, so they wouldnt have to deal with the rest of the crew if they didnt want to. And if the power goes out, they have everything down there, food, water, bathrooms(chemical, providing they were just dumped). I would not be worried about them if they had to stay there a week. It is an amazing place, if anyone gets here to see it.

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You can look at some pictures on the website if you care to.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/pr...tos/index.html

Long for sure, but still interesting. Remember, this is all 1/2 mile underground. And they are working on getting the new national lab and building a BIGGER one. It is all very exciting for an area that is loosing it's mining very fast.

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Orginally posted by Deb Miller
You can look at some pictures on the website if you care to.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/pr...tos/index.html
Long for sure, but still interesting. Remember, this is all 1/2 mile underground. And they are working on getting the new national lab and building a BIGGER one. It is all very exciting for an area that is loosing it's mining very fast.

Deb, Intersting pictures. I thought that they were going to be like this one. :laugh :laugh :laugh
<img src=http://www.fiberglassrv.com/board/uploads/3f3d1a3fa6057LightsOut.jpg/>
Inside a mine with the lights out! :laugh

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They were all like that, but they didnt think it would go over very well for the press. It's all about getting money, you know.

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You guys are too funny...<img src=http://www.fiberglassrv.com/board/uploads/3f3d4793186b3rofl3.gif/>

We have a mine here too that is the sight of the Sudbury Neutrino observatory. it's 7200 feet down.

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finially someone working deeper then i used to live!
neutrinos are neat not exacty a wave not exactly a particle .
oh becarefull i might get exicted to a higher energy state!
:banana
:cheers

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Of course we are familiar with Sudbury. How close are to to Sudbury? Bill would really like to get clearance to go there. I bet it is cool. Actually that deep, probably warm.

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:wave

Yes and we managed to survive the blackout. We live in Sarnia Ontario directly across the St. Clair River from Port Huron Michigan and approximately 50 miles north of Detroit. Our electricity went out at 4:15 PM. yesterday afternoon and stayed off until 4:15 A.M. today. All day today we have had frequent blackouts in a rotational manner. It has not been great. I work for a home oxygen provider and spent the whole day delivering oxygen cylinders as a backup precaution to the unfortunate folks who require oxgen on a continuous basis in their home. Believe me those folks have been pretty frantic about the loss of electricity.

Peggy
1980 Bigfoot

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Bless you, Peggy. I hope things get better and better, and quickly, too. :sunny

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Orginally posted by Joe MacDonald
You guys are too funny...<img src=http://www.fiberglassrv.com/board/uploads/3f3d4793186b3rofl3.gif/>
We have a mine here too that is the sight of the Sudbury Neutrino observatory. it's 7200 feet down.

7200 feet? WOW!! I am gobsmacked! I didn't have any idea that mines were that deep.
:omy

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This blackout is another good reason why everyone should camp. We campers have our little trailers to cook our meals in if necessary. Most of us also have portable propane stoves and lanterns and keep a good stock of batteries and flashlights. Those of you lucky enough to have a three way fridge could at least keep a few things cold.

We always have at least 10 (overkill I know) pop bottles of ice in the freezer for use in the coolers. That is our drinking water and saves us boiling the sporadically funcioning tap water as we've been told to do.

And for those unfortunate folks in the west who have had to evacuate their homes, think of how many personal, irreplaceable items could be loaded in our little fiberglass wonders to be towed out of the danger zone.

We campers are like the scouting motto Be Prepared!

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Hi Nancy
I feel the same way.Good points you made.:)