I went to McDonalds for lunch, a sign on the door said they will be open as soon as possible. There was an electrical repair company van parked at the back door. On the evening news tonight, one of the major anchors at the local mall had a power outage tonight and a hundred or so customers had to be escorted out of the dark. A mall spokesperson said that the outage was caused by a malfunctioning computer but was NOT y2k related..... Is dirty power going to be the norm for awhile?

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), January 04, 2000

Answers

Vern- WHERE was that? City, State? Thanks.

-- Swissrose (cellier@azstarnet.com), January 04, 2000.

The greater Younstown, Ohio area. These 2 businesses are on the same shopping strip.

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), January 04, 2000.

Youngstown...oops!

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), January 04, 2000.

20000104 Tuesday

"DIRTY POWER" (BROWN-OUTS) is(are) might as well be a "BLACKOUT"!

Can't run electronics and/or motors without risk of "crispy critters."

The spin doctors are cleverly assuaging the ignorant "masses" until they discern the results are equal.

Regards, Bob Mangus

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-- Robert Mangus (rmangus1@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.

Youngstown, that certainly explains the dirty power. ;-)

Here around Columbus both my phone lines went dead about noon. Drove to pay phone 1/2 later and they had no information on any problems in my area but the phones magically came back on. On the way to the pay phone passed an Ameritech van working at one of those larger boxes (3feet x 5 feet).

Also noticing my UPS kicking on off quite a bit, If you have not run both your power and phone cords through a UPS you deserve to have your motherboard fried. Those power (most) strips will not help against a brownout (rolling or otherwise).

This is not a prep just smart insurance against frying all your copies you made of all your wonderful posts.

-- Squid (ItsDark@down.here), January 04, 2000.

BOB GOOD TA SEE YA AGAIN!!! E-mail me would you? Heard some stuff back in Oct or so and REAL good ta see ya on line again.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 04, 2000.

Squid --

Did you have several brief outages in your area this morning? I'm up on the north end of Columbus and had two 15 second outages, plus the traffic lights on High St. are still glitchy. AEP is trying to blame yesterday's storm for the outages that occured yesterday morning (before the storm came in).

-- (ladybuckeye_59@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.

I don't know what the norm is because I stupidly only started monitoring it on Saturday, but the grid voltage is fluctuating on the PA side of the border. My guess would be that the norm is around 124 or so. I have seen it drop to 122 and fluctuate. I am asking my local solar guy if he knows what the grid norm is in our area.

Perhaps somebody else knows nationally.

-- nothere nothere (notherethere@hotmail.com), January 04, 2000.