[37038] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Canada - Land of ice and snow (was RE: California power ... unplugged)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland )
Mon Apr 30 06:50:23 2001
Message-Id: <200104301044.f3UAicc15780@nic-naa.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: rneals@gt.ca, nanog@merit.edu, brunner@nic-naa.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "29 Apr 2001 20:25:49 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:44:37 -0400
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean,
Not surprisingly, the same event affected Maine. The lines to Washington
country went down under load, and tree damage in the Lewiston-Auburn to
Augusta to Belfast was so pervasive that power restoration took an average
of two weeks. I lived in Belfast, ours was down for 17 days. The icing was
worse in Southern Quebec. Thanks for the reminder of the month when people
shared. I benefited by a cord of wood from my neighbor.
As for the environmentally friendly label on hydro-power, I trust Randy is
not referring to Hydro-Quebec power, or at least not hydro-power that has
a cost of mercury uptake in Cree communities in Northern Quebec.
Oh, pro-nuke raving and so forth isn't one of this lists stronger points.
Eric
