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[tubemonkey]

I may need some help for the next day or two.

A new winter storm is moving into the Sound today and heavy winds are expected. That means possible power outages and a loss of internet service. I have a generator, so I'll still have power, but I won't have internet if it goes out.

So if it looks like I'm absent, that's the reason why. If that's the case, would one of you please post the daily deals? Thanks

Daily Deals

• Aud UK --> midnight GMT
  
• Aud US --> midnight PST
  
• Nook --> midnight PST

[GtrsRGr8]

The low Whispersync deal price is thanks to a huge drop in price (to 99 cents) of the ebook portion.

For neophytes . . . . with the Whispersync deal you get the ebook, audiobook, and syncing of the two for a single price. Often you can get the audiobook for much less going this route than buying the audiobook alone at Audible. For example, with this present deal, you can get the entire Whispersync deal for only $4.28, while the audio alone at Audible is $14.95.

Title: Love is a Verb: Stories of What Happens When Love Comes Alive.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Relationships/Marriage).
Author(s): Gary Chapman
Price: $4.28 ($0.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $14.95 (1 credit?).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.7 stars/51 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.4/22 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 226/7 hours and 11 minutes.
Narrator(s): Pam Ward, Grover Gardner, Lloyd James.
Audible URL: https://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Deve...ook/B002V02H3U.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Love-Verb-Sto.../dp/B00B853NY6.
Comments: Faith-based.
Book Description (Amazon):
Dr. Gary Chapman has spent his life helping people communicate love more effectively and in turn build more satisfying and lasting relationships. His book The Five Love Languages is a regular on the New York Times Best Sellers list--even after being in print for fifteen years--and has made the term "love language" a part of everyday speech.

Love Is a Verb takes his teaching to the next level. Rather than a typical marriage self-help book filled with lengthy explanations of principles and techniques, it is a compilation of true stories displaying love in action. These stories--written by everyday people--go straight to the hearts of readers, who often say that illustrations are the most effective parts of a book. Gary Chapman adds a "Love Lesson" to each story, showing readers how they can apply the same principles to their own relationships.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 10 Feb

• £1.99 -- My Sister's Grave -- Robert Dugoni --> detective

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I may need some help for the next day or two.

A new winter storm is moving into the Sound today and heavy winds are expected. That means possible power outages and a loss of internet service. I have a generator, so I'll still have power, but I won't have internet if it goes out.

So if it looks like I'm absent, that's the reason why. If that's the case, would one of you please post the daily deals? Thanks

Daily Deals

• Aud UK --> midnight GMT
  
• Aud US --> midnight PST
  
• Nook --> midnight EST

If it happens, enjoy your freedom for a while, take a rest, play some golf . . . well, scratch that last one.

I'm trying to figure out how you would lose Internet if the power went out. I'm sure that you have wi-fi, so you could plug the wireless router into the generator to keep that going. If you have cable, it wouldn't quit, would it? If you have DSL, wouldn't it be okay, regardless? Even if you got Internet access by tethering to a cell phone, you would be good. Of course, you could plug your desktop computer into the generator or battery backup, or run a laptop on battery for a while. I'm probably misssing something very obvious. We had a fairly long power outage a few nights ago--my laptop still worked, my cable still worked. I assume that if I had a generator or battery backup, my wireless router would have still worked, and I would have been fine . . . .

We've had a couple of bad storm systems pass through here in Florida in the last week or two. Both of them spawned tornadoes in other states. The State Tourism Board/Department here in Florida loves to talk about how we're "the Sunshine State" (it's on all of the auto license plates, to my knowledge). They fail to mention that it's also #1 in deaths-by-lightning because of the sometimes frequent thunderstorms . . . .

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I'm trying to figure out how you would lose Internet if the power went out. I'm sure that you have wi-fi, so you could plug the wireless router into the generator to keep that going. If you have cable, it wouldn't quit, would it? If you have DSL, wouldn't it be okay, regardless? Even if you got Internet access by tethering to a cell phone, you would be good. Of course, you could plug your desktop computer into the generator or battery backup, or run a laptop on battery for a while. I'm probably misssing something very obvious. We had a fairly long power outage a few nights ago--my laptop still worked, my cable still worked. I assume that if I had a generator or battery backup, my wireless router would have still worked, and I would have been fine . . . .

Downed power lines. Cable is strung on the same poles. We have lots of trees here and my street is one of the last ones to get serviced because there are so few houses on this branch of the line.

I have Comcast and the router needs a hardwire connection to the cable. As to cellphone service, I don't have a data plan (by choice), so tethering is out.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I'm trying to figure out how you would lose Internet if the power went out.

Because the icy tree branch that knocks down the power line will very likely take the phone and cable lines with it.
[TM beat me to it.]
Geesh, you people who don't have Winter.....

P.s. we didn't get much of a storm here by me. Maybe 6" of snow.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by ApK

Because the icy tree branch that knocks down the power line will very likely take the phone and cable lines with it.
[TM beat me to it.]
Geesh, you people who don't have Winter.....

P.s. we didn't get much of a storm here by me. Maybe 6" of snow.

We got a couple of inches last weekend and most of it lasted until today when the rains came and melted it away. It's a bit unusual for snow to last that long around here.

monkey likes to visit snow. He hates it when snow visits monkey

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

monkey likes to visit snow. He hates it when snow visits monkey

Well, we're glad to see you didn't get knocked offline, monkey!

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Downed power lines. Cable is strung on the same poles. We have lots of trees here and my street is one of the last ones to get serviced because there are so few houses on this branch of the line.

I have Comcast and the router needs a hardwire connection to the cable. As to cellphone service, I don't have a data plan (by choice), so tethering is out.

OIC.

I have Comcast, too, but am able to use a modem and wireless router just fine. I wonder why the difference . . . .

The same situation of power lines and cable sharing poles may be true here, too, and I just didn't know because I haven't had a relevant power pole down. A lot of them, on the main lines anyway, are made of reinforced concrete, because we have these occasional nuisances called "hurricanes" come by to visit. It looks like cable companies could bury their cables, like they do around here (and all over the Deep South, for that matter) for telephone lines . . . .

You may be a candidate for using one of the two new satellites that Alphabet (Google's parent company's name now) is supposedly going to send up that will beam down somehow Internet service all over the country.

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 10 Feb

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- Up From Slavery -- Booker T Washington --> memoir
  
• BN Nook --> $4.99 -- Distant Shores -- Kristin Hannah --> romance

[ApK]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

It looks like cable companies could bury their cables, like they do around here (and all over the Deep South, for that matter) for telephone lines . . . .

You may be a candidate for using one of the two new satellites that Alphabet (Google's parent company's name now) is supposedly going to send up that will beam down somehow Internet service all over the country.

In a rural area, it costs about 4 times as much to run underground cable, and the more developed the area, the more it costs, by more than an order of magnitude for urban areas. I recall hearing the number it would cost to change my area from overhead to underground, and it was staggering. They stated a number that I thought sounded reasonable per mile, then it turned out that number was per FOOT. I suspect any taxpayer who really needed Internet access the <%1 of time wires got knocked down, would choose to just buy a pay-as-you-go hotspot instead.
I'm not familiar with the Google sats you mention, but if for no other reason than speed-of-light limitations, satellite is usually only a good choice when nothing else is available. I guess if google solves issues of cost, it may get more attractive as a backup.

[ElspethB]

Originally Posted by ApK

Because the icy tree branch that knocks down the power line will very likely take the phone and cable lines with it.

Yup. When Superstorm Sandy hit us, we lost electricity for only 24 hours but cable (TV and internet) was out for a week.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by ApK

Because the icy tree branch that knocks down the power line will very likely take the phone and cable lines with it.
[TM beat me to it.]
Geesh, you people who don't have Winter.....

P.s. we didn't get much of a storm here by me. Maybe 6" of snow.

My ignorance was concerning cable lines being on the poles with the power lines.

Of course, that would only make financial sense, if both companies were agreeable, and there were no technical issues involved (like magnetism (or something else undesirable)) being generated by the power lines (if it is coaxial cable--it is fiber optic, it might not make any difference). It would be a win-win for both companies.

However, whenever electricity goes off here, and in the rare instances that it turns out (and I find that knowledge out) that a knocked down pole was the reason, I have never lost my cable Internet, to my knowledge (meaning that I was at home when it happened, it wasn't the middle of the night, etc., when I wouldn't be aware one way or the other, etc.). That makes me wonder (and I think that I mentioned this in my previous post on this thread) if here where I live, the cable companies don't somehow use the telephone company's underground conduits. Here, my telephone company is AT&T, and they offer "U-Verse" Internet access. I would think that they would use their own underground conduits for that, at least.

But, I'm just thinking out loud. Unfortunately, I don't have an expert (a telephone line repairman would probably suffice) to ask.

I know that fiber optic cable, which I suppose is mainly used for what I think are called "trunk lines" (as opposed to the ones that run to your house from the street, for example) is buried, at least in some places. In a place where I lived in about 20 years ago, a crew came through and did just that. They didn't use anyone else's conduit that I could tell--they used a ditch digger (like a "Ditch Witch") to dig a trough, and laid their own cable (protected, sheathed) directly into the ground. Shortly afterwards, they would go back and cover it up. This was along a major 4-lane highway, on the public right-of-way along the highway.

[GtrsRGr8]

Oh, BTW, I don't have ice and snow (that sticks to the ground, anyway) here, but I am very familiar with limbs and electric lines, and roads icing up. I lived in an area in the Deep South that had that situation many times in the winter. In fact, I think that ice is worse in a big swath of the Deep South than it is in northern states (where the precipitation is more likely to be snow).

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by ElspethB

Yup. When Superstorm Sandy hit us, we lost electricity for only 24 hours but cable (TV and internet) was out for a week.

That makes me think that the TV/Internet cable was not on the poles which, presumably carried the electricity, but was buried where it was susceptible to flooding. But there could be other reasons.