[VoIP] 366 & 833 Down -- Photos

[Dennis D Hock]

Also reminds of Michigan.  Doug it does appear you guys got plastered.
Hope all is better.  The prospect of a week without power is very
disheartening.  I am afraid we are in for a similar issue here if we get a
good storm.  With the currnt reduction this year of 700 people leaving by
Nov 30 I have never seen our system have so many broken and missing
crossarm braces, busted arms, insulator pins riding on the top of the arm
as we currently seem to have.  All invitations for foul weather to play
havoc.

We have been told the energy industry is the last industry to consolidate.
There are too many local players in the electric and gas energy business.
Also, being told to expect a severe shakeout and consolidation in the next
5-7 years.  The think tanks expect only 10 -12 nationwide players to emerge
with the predicted much better and lower operationing costs.

Interpretation brace for more resource reductions and longer outages.  Also
look for contractors to do everything.

Dennis Hock

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To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches <voip at ckts.info>
From: Doug Alderdice <ka2wft at arrl.net>
Sent by: voip-bounces at ckts.info
Date: 10/17/2006 10:10AM
Subject: Re: [VoIP] 366 & 833 Down -- Photos

At 10:15 PM 10/16/2006 -0500, Greg wrote:
>Sorta like Minnesota.

Yes, we heard that this hit over your way before coming here.

As of 10 AM Tuesday as I write this, our electricity is still out and
nothing is in sight in terms of restoration in my area.  The schedule in
the morning paper is that our town and the City of Buffalo aren't going to
be back until late Sunday.  Oh boy.

More pix of the cleanup progress at my house, taken Sunday and Monday:
http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm05.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm06.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm07.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm08.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm09.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm10.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm11.jpg

To make things interesting, today it's raining and the wind is supposed to
pick up later which will likely shake out all the
broken-but-not-already-down limbs hiding up in the trees.

To keep things on topic, I did power up my switch briefly Sunday when I
turned on the circuit it plugs into to activate my outside outlets so I
could run my electric chain saw out front.

But, overall we're doing OK and this is nothing compared to the hurricane
damage down south.  We still have the house and cars.

Doug.




> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf
>Of
> > Doug Alderdice
> > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 9:14 PM
> > To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
> > Subject: Re: [VoIP] 366 & 833 Down -- Photos
> >
> > Hi gang,
> >
> > For those interested, here's what greeted us yesterday AM at the home
>QTH:
> >
> > http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm01.jpg
> > http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm03.jpg
> > http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/storm04.jpg
> >



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