power outages

Rolling Blackouts (MM #4305)

Shortly before Christmas, when most of the U.S. was experiencing extreme weather, our power company instituted some rolling blackouts. I was annoyed at the time, but we were getting ready to head out of town, so I just let it go. But a news story that covered similar outages in North Carolina angered me today….

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Power Outages (MM #2428)

Power outages have become more painful, now that computers control so much. But why doesn’t everything shut off when we have a brief interruption?

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