[eyewoo]

Having an interesting experience today. We had a severe storm last evening which knocked out power for 45 or 50 thousand electric company custromers. However, our little transformer only serves about 13 of all those thousands, so we got pushed down to the bottom of the priority list. Power not yet on and will probably not be till later this evening...

...so, I'm behind on two deadlines... Not good for a freelancer. What to do. Can't work without electricity. A friend suggested that I go to Border's Bookstore and set up in their Cafe with my laptop (which I do all my work on.) Working well... I haven't caught up yet, but I'm also not falling farther behind...
_________________
HonePie.com
tumblr blog
digtal art

[seth1]

That really sucks man! Sorry to here that! The power went out yesterday at are place too, for a few hours. Wouldent your clients understand if you told them what happened?

[balistic]

Power outage story:

When I was kid in the Sierra Nevada, one winter we got about 5' (1.8m) of snow all at once. It knocked the power out for almost two weeks. The town of 250 residents owned a generator that was salvaged from a World War II submarine, but it could only power half the town at a time. Usually they turned it on to keep power on in the center of town, so my family, our house on the outskirts, only had power for a few hours every other night. We had to put our frozen food outside to keep it from spoiling, but it didn't take long for the bears to find it and eat it.

The electric company eventually reimbursed our family for the food that the bears ate.

I had just turned seven years old and received a Sony Walkman as a birthday present. This was a great present to get, but unfortunately the only tape I had for it was a copy of Huey Lewis and the News "Fore" that my aunt had given me.

Imagine being trapped indoors, with your only electronic entertainment being that one album, for two weeks.

I still get a little angry and nauseous whenever I hear any of the songs on that record.
_________________
brian.prince|light.comp.paint

[Naeem]

We had a really bad storm too. But there was a small amount of rain, and a HUGE amount of wind. These winds were really really high. Trees were knoced down in a matter of minutes.
_________________
http://www.annisnaeem.blogspot.com/

[Jimmyjimjim]

[Lunatique]

I hate power outtages at night. At leat during the day, I could read books. Having power outtages in a crappy city like Fuzhou is especially bad, because going out is really not all that fun, unless you are looking for pirated DVD's/CD's/games.

We had an outtage once that we had been warned would last many hours. The outtage was scheduled to start early in the morning and will last until around dinner time (they schedule some outtages to ease the electricity usage--which is often over the limit). Summer in Fuzhou is hot and humid, and without AC, it's just miserable. So, early in the morning, we packed our Xbox, some DVD's, some games, some soft drinks and snacks, and checked ourselves into a hotel nearby. We just stayed in the hotel and slept the rest of the morning, then watched movies, played games..etc until the electricity came back on in our area of the neighborhood. Beats wandering around the crappy city of Fuzhou.

[Affected]

lunatique: would getting a solar panel be a feasible option?

[Lunatique]

Doubt there are decent ones in China.

[Affected]

seems strange for a country that size... But I guess you would know better than I.

[B0b]

need a huge amount of solar panels to make it work anyhow