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    Big Power Outage

    Posting via my phone because we have no mains power. Looks like a major transmission line went down and caused an instability that took down the entire system from Orange County south through northern Mexico. It could be down until late tonight.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Was in contact with one of our regional offices via Communicator about 3:45 this afternoon...and everybody dropped offline.

    Either the routers between our facilities got mis-configured somehow or the circuit got chopped at an intermediate point.

    Strange.
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    That's about the time the power went out. Right now it's looking as if it will be down until late tonight or possibly even tomorrow. Mostly an inconvenience for me--no refrigerator and it's been hot here. Some real morons on the local repeaters spreading unfounded rumors about terrorist attacks and such. I just wish I had backup power for my HF rig so I could operate on the low bands without all the usual interference from power line noise.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    No generator? Can you liberate the battery from your car? Manual transmission and a rolling start if you run it down too far? QRP doesn't take much battery. You're a ham, make something work.
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    Where's MacGyver when you need him?
    I am surprised at such a sudden deterioration in a woman whose only ailment was a lazy anus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KC9ECI View Post
    Where's MacGyver when you need him?
    Where's all the wind and solar power when you need it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    Where's all the wind and solar power when you need it?
    That's really an interesting question. What does happen with the power generated by all those wind farms?
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    That's really an interesting question. What does happen with the power generated by all those wind farms?
    Along that same line of thought, sort of, when a town gets a bad hit from some type of storm/natural disaster, the rebuild should require at least 50% renewable energy sources back into the infrastructure. I know, many of the dunderheads will decry this as more government in our lives and too much regulation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KC9ECI View Post
    Where's MacGyver when you need him?
    Avoiding & hiding from Patty & Selma Bouvier.
    Patty, like Selma has also had an honest sexual fixation on MacGyver for many years, although this aspect of her personality was played out in later years.
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