Mother Nature WTF???

[Blueberry]

On a lighter note, I spoke to a friend yesterday who lives in DC, and he said they did not lose power at his house. In fact they never lose electricity at his house, because they're on the same grid as the White House. I lived around the corner from him for a couple of years back when I first moved to this area, and I don't think I ever lost electricity while I was there, but it never occurred to me why that might be the case.

Snort. That's too funny!!

The other stuff is just plain scary. DC seems to have had significant natural "issues" too frequently lately.

[ny biker]

This has some good tips on maximizing your ability to communicate during power outages...

http://blog.ce.org/index.php/2012/07...after-a-storm/

BTW, we had some thunderstorms tonight, not severe but with some wind and lightning, and about 11,000 lost power afterwards. At least some of them had only just gotten the electricity back...