[Boatanchors] WAS Goodies NOW Bell

[KA4INM]

   On 04/11/2015 09:52 PM, manualman at juno.com wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean about "people north of New York City". Sandy
> turned west in Southern New Jersey (near Atlantic City). While the winds
> were high (it was a Category 3 storm), the more devastating problem was
> the storm surge of water that buried a lot of areas in and around NYC,
> Long Island, coastal CT, and some areas along the Hudson River with many
> feet of water. This killed a lot of electrical service for millions of
> people for many days. My cell phone provider evidently was proactive and
> had backup generators up and running where necessary as soon as the
> normal electrical service failed.

   In the Tampa, FL area the phone company (VerGTEizon) delivers small
gasoline powered generators to every buildings and "pedestal boxes"
without permanent backup power that need it, after hurricanes.
  (units that contain active electronics for such circuits as T1 and 4
wire circuits)
But they NEVER scheduled anyone to deliver gasoline to them every 8
hours, they always waited for customers called to complain of their
circuit failures, (again) which we did every 8 hours.
Year after year, glad I'm retired, I don't have to fuss with them
any more.
-- 
   Ron  KA4INM - Youvan's corollary:
                 Every action results in unwanted side effects.