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Old 09-13-2016, 08:33 PM   #28651
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb View Post
I always worry about how we'll ALL cope, if electricity is gone for a significant period of time (re your A/C 24/7/365). Say, if someone disrupts our power grid ....
We had that in the great Northeast Blackout. We managed, but it wasn't fun. (I was the systems/network/telecom admin for my shop, waiting for power to be restored so I could go in and start getting stuff back up again. The telephone system had its own power so I could keep in touch with my superiors, and a chap in my building had a radio he could keep powered by turning a crank and was out of the corner broadcasting updates as power was restored area by area.)

We had a lesser variant during Hurricane Sandy, which we rode back into from NC where my SO was visiting her older brother in the hospital. (He didn't come out. ) I live in the area of Manhattan that was below 34 St and without power, so we camped out for a week with a friend in Brooklyn who had power till we could go back home.
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