Re: Downed power lines

It is 2006, the TV/Newspaper government is on its way out, replaced by the
Internet. With the TV/Newspaper go its corporate sponsors and other "noble
institutions". I'm sorry that you are living in the past. You will find all
your favorite "organizations" when you join them on the ash heap of history.
Now pass the home-brew, (What's that Terrell, it's poison and it will kill
me and I should buy budwiser. Well I can't find bud anywhere, just home-brew
and microbrew brewpubs.)

"Bob Myers" <nospamplease@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So what are you going to do when the lights go out? Will you keep on
playing
with nice safe 12V toys and hope someone else will take care of it? What
do
you have to offer to that someone else? How will you even know who that
someone else is if you resist dealing with HV yourself? It takes one to
know
one, so I will study HV and maybe even get a little practice (even if it
is
dangerous) and let the people who won't help just live in the dark.

And hopefully, at some point in those studies, you will learn
that simply having the knowledge and experience will not be
sufficient to help ANYTHING "when the lights go out." No
matter how much you know about the subject and how much
experience you have, working on downed lines or any other
part of the electrical distribution system without being in the
employ of, or otherwise having the authorization of, the utility
which owns and operates that system is just asking for trouble.
You'd almost certainly be making the situation far worse, no
matter what you do. Or are you under the impression that
bringing a power grid back up is the equivalent of simply
plugging in a table lamp that your cat has knocked over?

Bob M.




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