Preparing for Power Outages?

Wasn't there a major outage there a couple of years ago? I seem to recall that a large and expensive component had to be trucked (with a "Wide Load" type deal) from Long Beach, California? And took days to arrive?

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Usenet2007
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"Rod Speed"> wrote

Have you been a whiney little gurl all your life? LOL

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Don

He's lying again. His boss tells him what to do and he goes and flips the burgers.

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Don

Welp, that explains his socialist attitude.

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Don

Yep, unfortunately you're right. Changes next weekend from what I've been told.

Who is Nashville's phone company?

AT&T. The problem is there isn't enough people around here that want broadband and they won't run a line just for us. None of the neighbors even own a computer let alone have a web connection. Many farmers and hunters and such.

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Don

"ameijers"> wrote

It IS beautiful here. My regret is that we didn't move here 10 years ago. Yes, I spend quite a bit of time outdoors. Very few people here (15,000 in the whole county) but lots of wild animals. I'm watching 2 squirrels race around a big snow covered cedar right outside my office window right now.

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Don

AT&T promised they would run DSL to rural areas, but there is rural and then there is technophobic. (g0.

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Kurt Ullman

That's because satellite TV is KU band, and satellite internet is KA band. Both of them get absorbed by water, but KA band is absorbed at a much faster rate. Clouds get in the way.

Too bad about the trees. Putting a dish on the roof makes maintenance a bitch.

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Larry Caldwell

I have heard that arc welders put out really dirty power because they use brushes instead of the brushless rotating field design that home generators use.

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Larry Caldwell

Pity its just that silly little f****it's pure fantasy.

I have never ever received even a cent of welfare in my entire life.

And you wouldnt know what a socialist attitude was if it bit you on your lards arse.

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Rod Speed

Some gutless f****it desperately cowering behind Don wrote just the puerile shit you'd expect from a desperately cowering gutless f****it.

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Rod Speed

"Rod Speed"> wrote

Not all socialists accept stolen money.

Your first sentence above indicates you haven't the first clue.

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Don

We're only 1/4 mile from 45, west of Bean Blossom, and on a good day I can see the wires from my house. But they won't run them to our house. Frustrating.

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Don

You know it.

2 weeks ago during the ice storm the dish was covered in ice and wouldn't work. No way in hell I was gonna get on that ice covered roof to chip the ice off. So I tried spraying it with the water hose. The temp was so low the water froze as soon as it hit creating 3' long icicles.
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Don

Somebody didn't get enough hugs when he was a little boy. LOL

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Don

Wires aren't the problem with DSL, IIRC it is getting within a mile of the

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Kurt Ullman

I think he was toilet trained at gunpoint...

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Kurt Ullman

Don wrote

You wouldnt know what a socialist was if one bit you on your lard arse.

Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.

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Rod Speed

Some gutless f****it desperately cowering behind Don wrote just the puerile shit you'd expect from a desperately cowering gutless f****it.

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Rod Speed

You an SBC customer?

To get DSL service, you have to be within 18,000 cable-feet of either a central office (CO) or a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM), which is usually a green box about 18" square mounted on a pole.

"Cable-feet" refers to the length of the actual cable run, not the straight line distance from your house to the CO or DSLAM, and cable routing can be pretty bizarre at times.

Gary

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Gary Heston

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