[TheForge] OT -- East Coast correspondents -- how goes H. Irene?

[Andrew Vida]

A decent 8KW generator would have paid for itself right off.  You might 
want to run out and get one as I hear the next storm, it is feared, may 
take a similar track.

On 9/3/2011 5:59 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
> We just got electric back. There was no reason for us to be out so
> long, other than the greed and incompetence of our local electric
> company. They think they want 75 million for clean up? Bull. We pay
> the second highest electric rates in the entire US. They cheaped out
> on the infrastructure that was the excuse for those rates. Be very
> glad guys, that none of you are my congesspersons or electric company
> executives.
>
> But thanks, guys, for being concerned. We were basically just fine-
> the difficulty is the $1000 worth of food we lost in the freezers.
>
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Andrew Vida<osan at netlabs.net>  wrote:
>> Season's just getting started. =8^o
>>
>> On 9/2/2011 8:44 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>>> Glad to hear so many are coping with the storm as I expect a bunch of
>>> blacksmiths to cope with . . . Stuff. I'm darned relieved Irene wasn't as
>>> bad as she could've been. Still, bad enough.
>>>
>>> Way to go.
>>> Jer
>