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Telephony said:
I live directly in the core of a large city, and the power hasn't gone out here since before I moved here in 1996.
As I understand though, this whole section of the city was in the dark for 5 days a few years earlier, when something happened to a powerline in the Denny regrade area, a few blocks northeast of here. People who need elevators and those who use electric wheelchairs that need to be charged daily (and who also need elevators) were probably SOL, but everyone else probably did OK.
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I remember that one Craig. Water had seeped into a power vault and the resulting steam explosion caused some major damage. Blacked out the north half of downtown Seattle (Denny Regrade) up to south Lake Union. I had recently switched jobs (from a Lake Union dealership to the northern suburbs) and was thinking to myself that my old crew was either sitting on their benches or working with hand tools and MiniMags (mechanics work even if the building's on fire). Little was I to know at the time, that I had relocated to "Black Out Central" (Lynnwood) where we would have about 4 day-long outages a year. Fourtunately (or unfortunately as the topic of this thread depicts) I have very few outages on my block. However, the rest of the neighborhood seems to have more than their fair share. Go figure. Still, that's enough reason for me to have a nice stockpile of lights and batteries around. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Later.
Dan