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    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to All on Friday, April 15, 2022 21:13:32
    Hello All,

    I just received an email from Nick saying severe weather is in his area and his system may shut down when the UPS battery runs out.

    -- Sean

    ... The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Sean Dennis on Friday, April 15, 2022 21:35:18
    On 15 Apr 22 21:13:32, Sean Dennis said the following to All:

    I just received an email from Nick saying severe weather is in his area and his system may shut down when the UPS battery runs out.

    Power seems to be back on now... (watch it go out again)

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Nick Andre on Friday, April 15, 2022 22:17:56
    Hello Nick,

    15 Apr 22 21:35, you wrote to me:

    Power seems to be back on now... (watch it go out again)

    Sysop's curse. <G>

    -- Sean

    ... He does the work of three men: Moe, Larry, and Curly.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)
  • From Shaun Buzza@1:229/110 to Sean Dennis on Saturday, April 16, 2022 16:10:15
    I just received an email from Nick saying severe weather is in his area and his system may shut down when the UPS battery runs out.

    -- Sean

    That's not good. Nick is my hub controller...I might be booted off Fido for a while...

    McDoob
    SysOp, PiBBS
    pibbs.sytes.net

    ... Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: PiBBS (1:229/110)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Shaun Buzza on Saturday, April 16, 2022 16:12:34
    On 16 Apr 22 16:10:15, Shaun Buzza said the following to Sean Dennis:

    I just received an email from Nick saying severe weather is in his are and his system may shut down when the UPS battery runs out.

    That's not good. Nick is my hub controller...I might be booted off Fido for while...

    Since mail still arrived to you like clockwork, nothing happened to your feed.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Shaun Buzza@1:229/110 to Nick Andre on Saturday, April 16, 2022 20:13:09
    That's not good. Nick is my hub controller...I might be booted off Fid while...

    Since mail still arrived to you like clockwork, nothing happened to your feed.

    Yeah, it wasn't until *after* I wrote that, that I noticed you were back at your keyboard... (^_^)

    McDoob
    SysOp, PiBBS
    pibbs.sytes.net

    ... Real Programmers balance their checkbooks in hex

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: PiBBS (1:229/110)
  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to Sean Dennis on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 10:47:00
    Sean,

    I just received an email from Nick saying severe weather is in his area and his system may shut down when the UPS battery runs out.

    Arkansas is in a pattern with storms for 2 days, sun for 2 days, storms
    for 2 days, etc. That leaves little time for BBS work.

    Daryl

    ... A penny saved is a Congressional oversight.
    === MultiMail/Win v0.52
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32
    * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (1:2320/33)
  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to Sean Dennis on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 10:49:00
    Sean,

    Power seems to be back on now... (watch it go out again)

    Sysop's curse. <G>

    Entergy did that to me yesterday with "infrastructure upgrades". No
    warning, and power was out for over 6 hours (was projected to be out
    for 10-12 hours). Either way, I lost every bit of food in the icebox,
    and have to go out today to replenish the supply.

    And, that also meant no computer/BBS work or laundry yesterday.

    Daryl

    ... Anyone know a chocolate reader for NESTLES.QWK??
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    * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (1:2320/33)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Daryl Stout on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 04:16:05
    On 19 Apr 22 10:49:00, Daryl Stout said the following to Sean Dennis:

    Entergy did that to me yesterday with "infrastructure upgrades". No warning, and power was out for over 6 hours (was projected to be out
    for 10-12 hours). Either way, I lost every bit of food in the icebox,
    and have to go out today to replenish the supply.

    For some reason I thought you had a basic UPS for your computer?

    But yes, here the power company is notorious for brownouts of random length.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to Nick Andre on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 18:00:00
    Nick,

    For some reason I thought you had a basic UPS for your computer?

    That I do...but it lasts basically for an hour, just enough time to save
    your work, and shut it down properly. Not like when you ran MS-DOS, and
    could just power down whenever you wanted, and the system wouldn't complain vociferously.

    But yes, here the power company is notorious for brownouts of random length.

    Lightning has hit the power substations, putting that part of the city
    in the dark...but more often, a squirrel gets in there, fries himself,
    and does the same thing.

    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)

    Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?? :P

    Daryl

    ... I've repeatedly said to you, to not be redundant.
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    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32
    * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (1:2320/33)