Power is out... again =:-O
I don't know what it is with this neighborhood I live in. We lose electrical power a few times every year. Typically no storms, no heat waves making people run too many air conditioners, just out of the blue for no apparent reason the power goes out. The most frequent explanation seems to be that a transformer has exploded somewhere.
I've asked the power company nicely to replace the transformers with the non-exploding variety, but it doesn't seem that they have heeded my advice. As I type, we're going on 45 minutes without power.
I've shut down all of the desktop computers in our house (one PC and two Macs, including a new iMac G5!) and am now running on battery power on my laptop. My computers and network equipment are all plugged into battery-backup power supplies, and with the computers shut down, the network equipment can probably run for an hour or two (maybe even longer) before the batteries go dead.
My cable company has obviously improved greatly over the years. It used to take nothing more than a stiff breeze (I exaggerate slightly) to knock out our cable service, and certainly any power outage anywhere along the route between my house and the cable company killed the cable.
These days, however, service is very reliable and I've not yet once found that the cable modem service was dead while running my network and computers off battery power when the lights were out.
Anyone got a big diesel generator they'd like to lend me, or a competent power company and a long extension cord?
I've asked the power company nicely to replace the transformers with the non-exploding variety, but it doesn't seem that they have heeded my advice. As I type, we're going on 45 minutes without power.
I've shut down all of the desktop computers in our house (one PC and two Macs, including a new iMac G5!) and am now running on battery power on my laptop. My computers and network equipment are all plugged into battery-backup power supplies, and with the computers shut down, the network equipment can probably run for an hour or two (maybe even longer) before the batteries go dead.
My cable company has obviously improved greatly over the years. It used to take nothing more than a stiff breeze (I exaggerate slightly) to knock out our cable service, and certainly any power outage anywhere along the route between my house and the cable company killed the cable.
These days, however, service is very reliable and I've not yet once found that the cable modem service was dead while running my network and computers off battery power when the lights were out.
Anyone got a big diesel generator they'd like to lend me, or a competent power company and a long extension cord?
Comments
We never get power outages.. Except in really bad storms.. And I mean really bad, tree-collapsing house roof-ripping storms. Which isn't too often thankfully.
Jimzip