Hello Kurt!

** On Sunday 22.11.20 - 11:33, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:

Hydro went out at 7am. It is now almost 10am. Would be nice to have
some hot water.

By "Hydro", do you mean the water supply or just hot water?

Hydro is the short-form we use to mean hyro electric power.
The main company that produces and oversees distribution is
called Hydro Canada. They are also involved in the various
nuclear powered facilities all over the country, but we still
refer to the lack of electric power as "no hydro".

If you've got fresh snowfall coming and a camp stove, you could make
it work. Where there's a will, there's a way. :)

How would fresh snowfall help - oh, you mean drinking water?

I have a home wood stove. Carmor(tm). Top-loading.

Cold coffee is getting old, fast. Power *is* present at
my shop. I have to be there today anyway. On we go.

At least you've got a place to charge and make coffee, then.

I did indeed. But I didn't stick around very long. The
downtown was quite dead - only traffic zipping through. Nobody
was interested in shopping much today. So, I came home after
3 hours.

Turns out that the outtage was actually a planned outtage -
that I forgot about. They announced it 2 weeks ago. I can't
rememeber a piddly little detail like that after two weeks!

I remembered that detail just before I left the house. But
before I did that, I took the opportunity of the power outtage
and daylight to replace a thermostat-switch that wasn't
working. The whole house is equipped with the same model. So,
I swapped out a good one from a room I don't use, and always
kept handy when I could motivate myself to take off the broken
one.

This is what I was replacing:

http://pics.rsh.ru/img/thermostat-switch_6s43dvjt.jpg

The highest I could turn the broken one was to the 10 o-clock
position. I lived with that seized/broken one for 3 winters.
Not bad. Coldest it ever got was 11C in my main living area.

I still have same heating (base-boards) in the lower part of
the house. Those I could crank up higher on the coldest days
to compensate. The heat would flow upwards through the large
open stairwell.

My main living room (I've closed off most of the other rooms)
is now nearly at 17C from a previous low of 12C this morning.
Good enough. The hydro was off only 5.5 hours this morning.

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Hello Mike!

** On Monday 30.11.20 - 15:55, Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

It lasted about 24 hours. Other regions had it worse (up
to 3 or 4 days without electric power). A few people
operate generators.

LOL, I read that as "water" not "hydroelectric." Would
not want to be without the former for long but, now that
Winter is upon us, being without the electric is more
worrisome.

"Hydro" is part of the name of the Canada-wide service company
that manages the electric (and nuclear) power facilities.
Canadians are used to using the term "hydro" when we refer to
the electricity services to our homes.

A few days without water is not a disaster for me. I have
plenty in single bottles and some larger containers for times
when everything shuts down.
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12-03-20 18:47 August Abolins wrote to Mike Powell about Hydro went off - again Howdy! August and Mike,

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Hello Mike!

** On Monday 30.11.20 - 15:55, Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

It lasted about 24 hours. Other regions had it worse (up
to 3 or 4 days without electric power). A few people
operate generators.

LOL, I read that as "water" not "hydroelectric." Would
not want to be without the former for long but, now that
Winter is upon us, being without the electric is more
worrisome.

"Hydro" is part of the name of the Canada-wide service company
that manages the electric (and nuclear) power facilities.
Canadians are used to using the term "hydro" when we refer to
the electricity services to our homes.

Down the road from the Lock and Dam I worked at was a Hydroelectric Plant.

It was owned by Louisville Gas and Electric Company (Kentucky).
There were 8 Turbines (Units) in the building.
It was the only Hydro Plant in the area, all of the other Generating Stations burnt Coal to run their Generators.

I was at work one day when a towboat locked through carrying a Hydro Unit
that was built in France that would be installed in Vanceburg, Kentucky.
It was a HUGE Unit, and that one unit probably would produce more electricty than the eight units in the nearby Hydro Plant could.

Just thought I'd jump in and make a comment.

73 de Ed W9ODR . .


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Down the road from the Lock and Dam I worked at was a Hydroelectric Plant.

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I was at work one day when a towboat locked through carrying a Hydro Unit that was built in France that would be installed in Vanceburg, Kentucky.
It was a HUGE Unit, and that one unit probably would produce more electricty than the eight units in the nearby Hydro Plant could.

Just thought I'd jump in and make a comment.

My town has an old water "mill" that has been tried to be converted to a proper hydro-producing source. Not enough gov't/private monies could sustain the project. It was eventually scrapped. Sad, really. It could have been a tourist draw if branded well.
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12-06-20 11:09 Mike Powell wrote to ED VANCE about Hydro went off - again Howdy! Mike,

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Down the road from the Lock and Dam I worked at was a Hydroelectric Plant.

It was owned by Louisville Gas and Electric Company (Kentucky).
There were 8 Turbines (Units) in the building.
It was the only Hydro Plant in the area, all of the other Generating

tations

burnt Coal to run their Generators.

I visited there when I was a kid as part of some field trip, probably
with the Cub Scouts. It was interesting to a young child! :)

I suppose Your field trip included stopping by the Lock area too?

1971 is when I began working there, and I left in 1996.

If I was on Day Shift You might had seen Me riding a Golf Cart to get to the Lower End.

73 de Ed W9ODR . .



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I visited there when I was a kid as part of some field trip, probably with the Cub Scouts. It was interesting to a young child! :)

I suppose Your field trip included stopping by the Lock area too?

1971 is when I began working there, and I left in 1996.

If I was on Day Shift You might had seen Me riding a Golf Cart to get to the Lower End.

Ed,
Yes it did! We watched at least one ship go through the locks. I would
have been there sometime between 1977-1980, I think. You might have been
one of the unfortunate souls who got their ears talked off by us. :)

Mike


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