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[indigo_rose99]

Isn't it grand?

I type this as I listen to the beep of our UPS.  The power has been out for about 5 minutes.  And yet my laptop runs off of battery, the internet connection is on the UPS...  I should still have enough time to post this before everything goes kaput.

I have to wonder how often and how long these things go on, usually.  Since we are at work when they most often happen, I had always assumed that they either happened in storms or were just quick brown-outs (those are the ones that usually happen when I'm around). 

Grateful that the temperature outside is only "hot" and not "nuclear."  Of course, if I had a clue WHY the power is out, I would feel a bit better... Weather is pretty nice outside.

Comments

power outage map?

[aurienne.livejournal.com]

Does your local utility have anything like this? Sometimes knowing where the outages are can help me guess if we're in danger (more likely with lots of little blips in our county to the south of us, but fine if it's to the west) or not, if it seems to be a storm knocking down a giant swatch (I normally check the weather.com images to see if the outages are in the same pattern), etc.

http://www.bge.com/portal/site/bge/menuitem.3465c31fe4bb492164d35302025166a0/

Re: power outage map?

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no, not that I can find.