[THIN] Re: [OT] Power Out
- From: "Chris Lynch" <lynch00@xxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:38:18 -0700
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"Why do you think that you can now get through airport security with a
printout from the web generated by your home computer?"
HUH?!?!? Here in California, if you do not have a valid boarding pass, you
are not allowed within the terminal. This is part of the Homeland Security
act. From what I was told by an official from LAX and John Wayne airports,
this has happened across the country.
Also, in California, this would increase our already double/triple prices by
2x to 3x's as much.
Chris
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Brian Madden
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:11 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: [OT] Power Out
I think the other major reason that no one in the US wants a more resilient
power grid is because we don't want to pay for it. We like paying 7 to 12
cents per KWH of electricity. If they built-in the redundancy needed to
avoid this sort of thing, our energy prices would double, triple, or even
quadruple.
I think the US society has chosen cheapness over redundancy. One major
outage every five years is acceptable to society. The US society has a very
short memory. Why do you think that you can now get through airport security
with a printout from the web generated by your home computer?
Sad but true.
Brian
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mark Mucher
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 12:48 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: [OT] Power Out
PARMA?
Turn blue you purple knif (or something like that...)
Mark
(remembering the late, great Ernie Anderson)
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:24 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: [OT] Power Out
I was without power at home and the site was down for 27 hours. (came on
about 7 oclock Friday and probably one of the last to come up in the area I
think) I lost all of the food in my refrigerator and freezer (probably about
$500 worth)
It was crazy. The store shelves were cleared of bottled water, batteries and
ice within an hour...you couldn't buy gas anyplace to even run your backup
generator even if you had one because the pumps didn't work anyplace.
The library I work for is in Parma where they were trying to claim the
outage started.(right up the street from the GM plant) We had an initial
quick outage at 4:06 on thursday and then it went out at 4:09. The papers
originally reported that power was lost at 4:28 which really threw me for a
loop.
Anyways....no doubt I was right in the heart of it. The power at the
library was up at 10 or 11 am on Friday so the Parma area where they were
claiming it started came up sooner than the grid by my house.
Jim
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