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12:20 AM: power play
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we had a very odd power pattern here today: a couple of very brief power outages early this afternoon left us puzzled, but later this evening it became much stranger. first, eight small brownouts of about 10 seconds each every 3 or 5 minutes, then an hour and half of brownout, then a total power outage for a bit, and then everything corrected itself. i was trying to make dinner when the brownouts happened -- by the time the last one hit, we had to boil the rice in the fondue pot. we're going to be helpless when civilization crumbles.
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Well, if this had been a few years ago, I'd say "just one word -- Enron" -- but since it's happening now. . . Wait a minute -- isn't Enron still involved with the power supply up there?
# posted by S. Brown : Mon Mar 20, 08:44:00 PM PST