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March 10th, 2002, 12:15 AM
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I am worried
Big wind storm ripping through Michigan and the NE today.
I am worried that UPS or Fed-ex left my copy of SE4G on my porch and it has blown down the street!
I am off to search the brambles...
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March 10th, 2002, 02:17 AM
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Re: I am worried
We lost powe for 3 hours in Ohio.
Missed part of my basketball wathing time  .
However life is going NCSU beat Maryland  .
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March 10th, 2002, 04:33 AM
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Re: I am worried
I did go look down the street, and I saw a cardboard box with a white label on it. "Oh my poor baby!!", I thought. But upon closer examination I found that it was only a bleached out pizza box.
Phew! I guess my copy will probably be arriving Monday.
Power has been 'flinching' around here all night too, and a power transformer must have exploded somewhere nearby: beautiful blue light-show!
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March 10th, 2002, 05:45 AM
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Re: I am worried
Talk about the wind! We just got hit with it in Toronto about 4hrs ago! Whoa. I think it's the windiest I have ever seen it get here...
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March 10th, 2002, 07:07 AM
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Re: I am worried
At my place, there was just the occasional voltage drop.
However, it was enough to repeatedly reset my new computer (blink...bootup...blink...bootup). Somehow, the other four machines in the room weren't affected, and kept on running.
A few hours later, It seems quiet outside, and I boot it up. It just gets to the desktop, then BLINK. 
At least things are running OK now, and there dosen't seem to be any damage
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March 10th, 2002, 08:39 PM
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Re: I am worried
My apartment is on the third floor of the building. The UPS driver was a new guy, and didn't notice the entry door on the second floor porch, so he came up the fire escape and knocked on that door.
Since nobody ever uses the fire escape, when I heard the knock I went to the front door. Nobody there, so I went out the front door, saw the UPS truck, and went around the side of the building, meeting the UPS driver as he came back down the fire escape.
[Edit] BTW, SE IV comes in a brown padded envelope, not a white box.
The power went out here three times Last night, but the computer is on an Uninterruptable Power Supply, so I could shut it down normally.
[ 10 March 2002: Message edited by: capnq ]
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