Hydro out. No heat. No water. But Telegram2Fido works! LOL.

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Hydro out. No heat. No water. But Telegram2Fido works! LOL.

Does that happen often?


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Does that happen often?

No, not really. I think there were just 3 other long outages at most 4 hours each this year. But this one is 11 hours sofar.


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No, not really. I think there were just 3 other long outages at most 4 hours each this year. But this one is 11 hours sofar.

We had none, for the last couple of years, as far as I can remember. ?


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We had none, for the last couple of years, as far as I can remember. ?

Indeed.

A large area of my province is affected. Trees are most often to blame.


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Hi August,

On 2020-11-16 15:37:12, you wrote to me:

We had none, for the last couple of years, as far as I can remember.
?

Indeed.

A large area of my province is affected. Trees are most often to blame.

What do they do? Fall on the lines?


Bye, Wilfred.

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Indeed.

A large area of my province is affected. Trees are most often to blame.

I get occasional power outages. Normally blamed on trees as well. But I live in an odd area where we aren't technically in the city limits of Houston, but it surrounds us. So as an unincorporated area of the county hidden away like that, updates to the services lag.

The bad part it we have well water, not city water, so power outages also knock out the well pumps.

In 2008, Hurricane Ike knocked out the power around Houston for a while. My parents were lucky, only a few hours. Where I live now was a few days. I lived about 1.5 miles from where I do now, and was without power or water for 2 weeks.


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Hi August,

On 2020-11-16 15:37:12, you wrote to me:

We had none, for the last couple of years, as far as I can remember.
?

Indeed.

A large area of my province is affected. Trees are most often to blame.

What do they do? Fall on the lines?

Bye, Wilfred.

Most often that is the case.


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Hi Wilfred!

16 Nov 20 15:35, you wrote to me:

We had none, for the last couple of years, as far as I can remember. ?

I would think that in your region (Netherlands for those here may not know) there would be plenty occassions of high winds and gales off the coast. Plus, I am reading that it rains a lot.

Along the way I've learned a bit about "niksen" - the art of doing nothing.


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Hi Charles!

16 Nov 20 15:45, you wrote to me:

The bad part it we have well water, not city water, so power outages
also knock out the well pumps.

Lack of access to the usual water source can be a major problem for many, even in my area where many homes feature their own wells.

But, I have a stash of the small bottled kind and keep a few large jugs of water around. It's a relief to have some spare water even just for flushing. Yesterday I could get my water in town at the shop where the town water is gravity-fed from a nearby lake to a water tower.

In 2008, Hurricane Ike knocked out the power around Houston for a
while. My parents were lucky, only a few hours. Where I live now was
a few days. I lived about 1.5 miles from where I do now, and was
without power or water for 2 weeks.

The winds yesterday could have practically been called a hurricane. But guess anything under 100mph is just a "Storm With No Name".


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Hi Wilfred!

16 Nov 20 13:41, you wrote to me:

A large area of my province is affected. Trees are most often to
blame.

What do they do? Fall on the lines?

The rural area where I live is known for its rocks and trees. That's what you see for riles and riles amound: rocks and trees, and more rocks and trees.

The only way to provide hydro power to this regions is overhead wires. The final leg of the feed from the barn to my house is underground for about 60ft. That was accomplished when the house was built in 1972.


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Hi August,

On 2020-11-17 20:23:36, you wrote to me:

We had none, for the last couple of years, as far as I can remember.
?

I would think that in your region (Netherlands for those here may not know)
there would be plenty occassions of high winds and gales off the coast. Plus, I am reading that it rains a lot.

Yep. But most of our electic cables are underground. So falling trees don't effect them...

Along the way I've learned a bit about "niksen" - the art of doing nothing.

;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello, August Abolins.
On 11/17/20 9:25 PM you wrote:

Hi Charles! 16 Nov 20 15:45, you wrote to me:

The bad part it we have well water, not city water, so power
outages also knock out the well pumps.

Lack of access to the usual water source can be a major problem
for many, even in my area where many homes feature their own
wells.

If it were my own well, I'd have a manual backup for the pump if nothing else, but it's a community well, serving about 30 homes.

But, I have a stash of the small bottled kind and keep a few large
jugs of water around. It's a relief to have some spare water even
just for flushing. Yesterday I could get my water in town at the
shop where the town water is gravity-fed from a nearby lake to a
water tower.

I do as well. About 12 5 gallon jugs, and several gallon jugs and smaller for keeping frozen for ice should it be needed to keep food cold.

In 2008, Hurricane Ike knocked out the power around Houston for a
while. My parents were lucky, only a few hours. Where I live now
was a few days. I lived about 1.5 miles from where I do now, and
was without power or water for 2 weeks.

The winds yesterday could have practically been called a
hurricane. But guess anything under 100mph is just a "Storm With
No Name".

I think the biggest take away people got from our situation was how outdated our utility infrastructure was. And all these years later, little has changed.

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Hello Wilfred!

** On Tuesday 17.11.20 - 21:29, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

Along the way I've learned a bit about "niksen" - the art of doing
nothing.

;)

I didn't know there was a name for the artform. I'd be sitting
at desk with mountains of books and piles of paper around me
and I would just rather do nothing. I think I am pretty good
at it.

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Hi Charles!

17 Nov 20 16:45, you wrote to me:

I think the biggest take away people got from our situation was how outdated our utility infrastructure was. And all these years later, little has changed.

Most communities are quite poor. Even my town (governed by a mayor and counsil) is struggling. Their solution is to raise taxes - perpetually? They also lobby for federal/provincial monies, but it always seems like trying to take food from a wolf.

Meanwhile, there are empty commercial spaces - unoccupied for years. No one can afford to participate in the town rates for taxes. The end result.. infrastructure costs are not acquired and the town plumbing/sewage/elctrical/streets all fall apart.

There should be a more fluid and evenly spread-out application of the monies in gov't coffers for infrastructure repairs - no questions asked.



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Re: I get occasional power outages. Normally blamed on trees as well. But
By: August Abolins to Charles Pierson on Tue Nov 17 2020 09:25 pm

Hi Charles!

16 Nov 20 15:45, you wrote to me:

The bad part it we have well water, not city water, so power outages also knock out the well pumps.

Lack of access to the usual water source can be a major problem for many, ev in my area where many homes feature their own wells.

But, I have a stash of the small bottled kind and keep a few large jugs of water around. It's a relief to have some spare water even just for flushing Yesterday I could get my water in town at the shop where the town water is gravity-fed from a nearby lake to a water tower.

In 2008, Hurricane Ike knocked out the power around Houston for a while. My parents were lucky, only a few hours. Where I live now was
a few days. I lived about 1.5 miles from where I do now, and was without power or water for 2 weeks.

The winds yesterday could have practically been called a hurricane. But gues anything under 100mph is just a "Storm With No Name".

near 100mph is still bad if not built for it. Most of the east coast USA, Canada, Mexico and down pretty far into South America build at least to CAT1. A lot to CAT2 or CAT3.

xxcarol
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