Hey na, hey na, my power's back!

[General Woundwort]

If, for some reason, my PBW turns don't get in and/or don't get processed (Highliner shakedown), you'll know that Isabel has knocked out power in the DC area. FYI.

EDIT - I just walked into a dark and empty office. They decided to close my agency w/o announcing it before hand. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

[ September 20, 2003, 00:40: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[Thermodyne]

Yep 150 miles round trip. Takes 1h10m on a good day. 1h40m on a normal day. And too damn many hours to count on a bad day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

It gives car pooling a new level of importance. If I drop the wife off down town, we use her car @30>35mpg. If I ditch the grand tour of down town Baltimore and drive myself then I have a choice of the K1500 @14>16mpg or the SS at about 20mpg

Most of the trip is on US 70 and usually at 80 to 90 mph.(Very cool in the SS http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ) It's the back roads from 70 to my home that are the worst part of the trip. The traffic in Baltimore is usually not that bad.

[dogscoff]

I can sympathise, Thermo. I used to commute 60+60 miles a day, and it sucked. Well, it did when I was driving. Then I got involved in a car pool and that improved things slightly, I could sit in the back get 2 hours a day se4 time on my laptop=-)

Or sleep... Sleep was good.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Yep 150 miles round trip. Takes 1h10m on a good day. 1h40m on a normal day. And too damn many hours to count on a bad day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

It gives car pooling a new level of importance. If I drop the wife off down town, we use her car @30>35mpg. If I ditch the grand tour of down town Baltimore and drive myself then I have a choice of the K1500 @14>16mpg or the SS at about 20mpg

Most of the trip is on US 70 and usually at 80 to 90 mph.(Very cool in the SS http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ) It's the back roads from 70 to my home that are the worst part of the trip. The traffic in Baltimore is usually not that bad.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Man if there was ever an excuse to find a job closer to home, this would be it. Oh wait, I lived in Vancouver and worked in Seattle for a while. That was a 2.5 hour drive on the best of days, and I shudder to recall the worse of days.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

shouldn't there be a uniun rule requiring them to inform you first?

[oleg]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
... Oh wait, I lived in Vancouver and worked in Seattle for a while. That was a 2.5 hour drive on the best of days, and I shudder to recall the worse of days.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Vancouver BC or Vancouver WA ?

[Thermodyne]

Same here. If my turns dont show up, it may be do to the fact that I have no power. I posted in all of my PBW game forums too.

My job is open but no one is here except some of the MIS staff. I think I'll cut for home about 11am, it a 75 mile trip and unfortunatly it will be right back into the path of the storm.

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Yep 150 miles round trip. Takes 1h10m on a good day. 1h40m on a normal day. And too damn many hours to count on a bad day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

It gives car pooling a new level of importance. If I drop the wife off down town, we use her car @30>35mpg. If I ditch the grand tour of down town Baltimore and drive myself then I have a choice of the K1500 @14>16mpg or the SS at about 20mpg

Most of the trip is on US 70 and usually at 80 to 90 mph.(Very cool in the SS http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ) It's the back roads from 70 to my home that are the worst part of the trip. The traffic in Baltimore is usually not that bad.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Man if there was ever an excuse to find a job closer to home, this would be it. Oh wait, I lived in Vancouver and worked in Seattle for a while. That was a 2.5 hour drive on the best of days, and I shudder to recall the worse of days.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I do IT, so I took what I could find http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[tesco samoa]

75 miles http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Fyron]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
shouldn't there be a uniun rule requiring them to inform you first?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Inform you of what? You know where the place you will be working at is located before you get the job...

[Thermodyne]

Update: The wind and rain got to Baltimore at about 2pm, so we headed south west for home. The weather got worse the farther we went. Got home at 4 and lost the power at 4:20. Then my damn old a$$ generator wouldn’t start! Got it going at 7, but it is running kind of poorly. I think it does not like the designer (low sulfur) fuel that we have here now. At times the wind is blowing more than 45mph, that’s as high as my weather station can read. And the already soaked ground is no holding any of the rain. So by morning I think we will have some stream flooding.

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
shouldn't there be a uniun rule requiring them to inform you first?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Inform you of what? You know where the place you will be working at is located before you get the job...</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think he was speaking to GW's post http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

But a nation wide IT union would be cool. Might be able to do something about IT outsourcing with it.

[Thermodyne]

Hey, I was just looking at the radar, and some of you guys in Ohio and even south central Canada are going to get to experience the storm. Outer band is in Ohio now, and the storm is picking up ground speed. It also has yet to turn back to the NNE.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, yeah. closing someone's job down and not telling them about it in advance is wrong.

[Kamog]

Yeah, they should let you know in advance, so that you don't waste your time driving out there and then find out that it's closed.

[General Woundwort]

It's official - my power went out as of 4:30 yesterday EST (before the major effects of the storm had even gotten here!). I'm using the computer at work to do quick notices to friends and family that I will be incommunicado - for probably 3-7 days. Yep, days, until the power comes back. I have e-mailed my PBW games and asked for clemency in ALPU.

I'll be back when you see me.

[Roanon]

7 DAYS? without power? I think even 7 minutes is barely acceptable, and would start terrorizing someone at the electricity company if I stayed 7 hours without power... Was that the first hurricane in that region? I admit, I usually hear more about florida and a bit up north when hurricanes are mentioned in our news here in Germany.

[tesco samoa]

yep the rain storm hit. 8 hours of rain coming up.

Thats it.

People up here watch cnn and freak out.

Forgetting that there is 1000 km , mountain range and a big lake inbetween the ocean and toronto.

They had a hot line set up that we had to call into this morning to make sure it was safe to go out.

Did I call no. So I was called this morning and asked why i did not call in with a hurricane coming. I asked them to show me where this hurricane was ? All I know about is a type 1 storm that will be almost done when it reaches us. Like a summer storm. 40 km winds.

People. Gotta learn to think and use alittle wisdom. You think they never seen a storm in their lives.

No offence to the people down there. I am just commenting on the people up here.

[Loser]

Wyoming (http://news.unclesharky.com/showarticle.php?article=1132)

[Roanon]

Isn't that the usual way, Tesco?
Like here. A snowstorm in Bavaria, everyone there drives a bit more carefully and nothing special happens. A single lone snowflake sighted in the Ruhr Area, and all start acting like crazy and cause total traffic breakdown because of "dangerous weather conditions". Sigh.

[ September 19, 2003, 18:41: Message edited by: Roanon ]

[Phoenix-D]

And just to remind you why people close to coasts -do- worry..

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/stormdetails.html

Damage estimates from Typhoon Maemi which struck Last weekend in South Korea have now been upped to 4 billion dollars, while there have been over 100 fatalities there. Only 3 hurricanes striking the United States broke the 4 billion dollars in damage mark: Floyd, Hugo, and Andrew.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Meanwhile, Isabella kills less than 1/5 that number. Care to take a wild guess which story you'll find on the news sites?

[Mephisto]

Oh so true, Roanon!

Originally posted by Roanon:
Isn't that the usual way, Tesco?
Like here. A snowstorm in Bavaria, everyone there drives a bit more carefully and nothing special happens. A single lone snowflake sighted in the Ruhr Area, and all start acting like crazy and cause total traffic breakdown because of "dangerous weather conditions". Sigh.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

[General Woundwort]

The power kicked on about an hour and a half ago. I spent the first half-hour using the shop-vac to suck up water from the basement. Then I did my PBW turns. Now I'm here.

EDIT - To answer your question, Roanon, the Last real hurricane that hit the DC area was back in 1933. It was pretty bad as I hear, and this one comes close. Still hundreds of thousands in the region with no power. A real controversy is brewing in that the Maryland power company (PEPCO) is handing out dry ice for their customers to keep their freezers cold, and Dominion Power (the Virginia utility) is not.

[ September 20, 2003, 00:49: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[Thermodyne]

The western part of Maryland is not on Pepco, although we do host their main generation plant. Well it was theirs before deregulation. Alleghany power is pretty good about repairs; we have been back up most of the day.

Anyone get any damage? Mine is limited to tree tops and some shingles.

[Jake Monroe]

Originally posted by Roanon:
Isn't that the usual way, Tesco?
Like here. A snowstorm in Bavaria, everyone there drives a bit more carefully and nothing special happens. A single lone snowflake sighted in the Ruhr Area, and all start acting like crazy and cause total traffic breakdown because of "dangerous weather conditions". Sigh.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I remember when we would get just a tiny amount of snow (maybe 1 centimeter) Most of the people would rush to the grocery store to stock up on before the deadly snow came. The only time this action was even remotly justified was when the "perfect Storm" came thru and gave us a nice blizzard. Btw, this was when I was in middle Tennessee.