OT: Battery backup

[Kenneth Brody]

On 2/25/2011 2:25 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
[...]
> Auto accident taking out a pole.  BGE had figured 3 hours to get us back
> online.  It only took 30 minutes.

Reminds me of when sCC first moved to the Hawthorne office.  The first year 
we were there, there were either 3 or 4 accidents where a car hit the pole 
in front of the building, taking out the power.

[...]
> One always has cell phones as long as the power isn't completely out.  Re:
> New York City blackouts - no cell phones but the old POTS phones worked.

Yup.  I even got a call from fPTech's main office, asking why I wasn't 
online.  I told them "check the news".

[...]

-- 
Kenneth Brody