Tag: power outage
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Quote of the Day
From IRC, in [#lopsa](http://www.lopsa.org/irc), a channel full of system administrators: <mhalligan> power outages are no fun <mhalligan> unless you’re in fry’s and have no ethics Classic. Oh, and [happy Pi day](http://www.marius.org/tag/pi)!
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Power – It’s a good thing
As many people have blogged about in the past few days, the Seattle area got slammed with a massive windstorm last Thursday. Winds peaked out at 69mph at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and were clocked at 118mph near Mt. Rainier. We lost power at 5:51pm that night. I called [PSE](http://www.pse.com/) and was told we were the…
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Power Outage Notifications
So, tonight at home, we had a multi-hour power outage. [side note: it really is boring without electricity] I called our electric company (Puget Sound Energy [S&P400: PSD]) to report the outage, just in case no one else had. I started off with a phone tree, that usually drive me nuts; PSE surprised me with…
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so that was fun
Well, that was fun.. Or not. For those of you not in the B/CS area, we just went through a 5 hour power outage. Not just a neighborhood outage, but both cities, as well as Texas A&M. The outage reportedly went all the way to Waco, and east to the Texas/Louisiana border. Crazy stuff. Local…