Re: No wonder it's so quiet here today!! OT

Yep, my sister in Ct. called me to see if I knew what was up. Her power was out, and her cell phone was out. She called her hubby, who was working about 40 minutes away, and they were without power too!

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:39:16 -0400, Kandice Seeber wrote (in message ):

No kidding. Here in Boston, we were amazingly spared the power outage, even though we share the same grid. Some engineer was really on the ball and disconnected us from the Eastern Grid during the three minute window when the plants and stubstations started failing.

I'm shocked that NYC doesn't have backup generators to power the subways, at least in a limited fashion, in case of emergency. Boston does, and our subway system is older than New York's.

I'm praying that tonight is quiet, even if the lights don't come on until tomorrow. New York worries me, but Detroit worries me even more.

Kathy N-V

I'm still filing this one under "crumbling infrastructure". Fortunately we were spared tonight, though my neighboorhood got a mini dose of the same thing on Tuesday.

Laura

And I've been on and offline cuz of GORGEOUS thunderstorms.

Managed to make several beads and a nifty vessel between blasts. I think maybe I need to do more vessels, these are fun. I'll post it tomorrow (it's for a local swap).

-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Karen_AZ" :

]I've been "lucky" enough to be escorted out of NY subways by torchlight ]twice. I gave notice at my work a week after the second time. When ]I heard the news today, I felt SO bad for all the victims of the "slaveway."

trust me - i would have completely freaked. and i don't want to even THINK about the elevators or the Canadian miners!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

We had a small thunderstorm Wednesday night, reasonably unusual for us in winter, but the computers (just the boxes AFAIK) are plugged into a UPS 'cause DH got sick of minor power gliches interupting his computer during work hours!

"Kandice Seeber" wrote 50 million people effected by the

Wow, what a day/nite to live on the East Coast! I'm again 'empowered' but have two kilns full of stressed/dead beads.. (now that is sad..) Better than being trapped in a subway or elevator or missing an important flight or surgery etc but still quasi tragic...

Pout....

Whine....

Wine....needed.... lol.....

Faith (who is thinking she needs backup gens - for her kilns! lol...)

would that be....dark beer? Sarajane

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AAAAAARRRRGGGG!

Arondelle

Elevators. That was my first thought.

Deirdre

Hiya my partner in crime! How ARE you?! :-) Thanks for the 'hug & sympathy'! (like tea & toast, makes one feel better!)

I love louis' beer mug beads! I think this could require a 'six pack' or a few pub rounds, lol...

Hugs backatcha! Faith

snipped-for-privacy@aol.comeatspam (Sjpolyclay) wrote would that be....dark beer?

LOL, Sarajane I adore a good 'bad' joke (pun)! Well done! It'd be a Guiness for sure! (as in the dark 'almost a meal'beer, not the world record for 'most beads lost due to power failure)! lol.... (tho still whining a bit....)

Faith

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :

]Oh, crap! I didn't think about the lampworkers whose kilns might have been ]on. Yeesh. :(

can't they be brought back up slowly and "started over"?

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

I was thinking that...

Weren't you able to recover some of your beads when you had trouble with your kiln a while back by ramping them back up, soaking them and then ramping slowly down again?

Deirdre

If they haven't already been stressed for too long, sometimes yes. It depends on how long the power was out, and whether there is breakage already.

Hi Kandice: We had a blackout here at about 4:30 pm yesterday. It was so hot last night, the humidty was around 94. Too hot to open the windows. My two kids and I spent a quite evening by candlelight talking about our trip to Colorado and my 7 year old daughter and 10 year old son was telling silly stories. We woke up to no power until a few minutes ago. The radio stations say that there will be rolling blackouts, and to prepare ahead (water, gas, ice). All the stores around here had no ice, and all the gas stations weren't operating. And last night water was scarce.

I am so thankful that we arrived home from the airport the night before this happened. I can't imagine the ordeal people were going through at the airports yesterday. Plus, hundreds of people were trapped in elevators, and on subways. Makes you appreciate the health and well being of family and friends. D.Jean

Depends on the kiln. And sometimes, if beads have already passed the point of shock (around 800 for Moretti, give or take) ramping down quicker than usual is okay. But you have to realize that annealing takes hours, and some kilns don't hold in heat quite that long if shut off. Otherwise there would be no need for a controller.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :

]But you have to realize that annealing takes hours, and some ]kilns don't hold in heat quite that long if shut off. Otherwise there would ]be no need for a controller.

something else i hadn't thought of, as usual. thanks!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

before this happened. I can't imagine the ordeal people were going through at the airports yesterday.<

It just dawned on me to worry about my Mom. :-( She's in Europe (a Baltic cruise, after a decree of "no more travelling" at Xmas last year) and due to fly home tomorrow, the 16th. She's with a group from the local AAA so I'm sure the AAA representative will have things under control. If not, I'm sure Mom will take control! LOL I don't remember what the problem was, but when I was 10 (1970) we flew back from England to Newark and all planes were grounded (air traffic controller strike, the first time, maybe???) and Mom somehow got our pounds changed to dollars, got us a cab to the train station, called my dad, and we took the train home. I thought it was quite an adventure.

-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs