[Lindengardens] Power?

[Chris De Angelis]

It might be worth mentioning that I saw a documentary recently on America's crumbling infrastructure, and one of the things highlighted was the power grid. It was a great achievement when it was completed, but is now in bad shape - as witnessed, for example, by the blackout of 5 or 6 years ago leaving millions in the northeast without power. The documentary also said we can probably expect more brownouts in years to come as power companies struggle to prevent the massive blackouts like the one I mentioned. 

I don't want to incite panic about this, but the fact is our power system is overloaded and if this doesn't turn out to be a glitch with something affecting our building specifically, we might not be able to do much besides chalk it up to the strain on the power grid during the highest demand times (summer, followed by winter). Of course we could report it to NSTAR, but I don't think they would do much about it unless it turned out to be a problem on a greater scale. 

Chris 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Santucci" <santucci at brandeis.edu> 
To: lindengardens at mit.edu 
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 6:59:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [Lindengardens] Power? 

I guess we should try to talk to one of our neighbors and find out whether it's isolated to our building. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Jordan Price wrote: > It went off again for a few seconds this afternoon. I think it was at > around 12:00-12:30 > > On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > I noticed last night's blink, as well as one a couple weeks ago.. > > That's about it. > > > > > > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:35:13 -0800 (PST) Aaron Federman > > wrote: > > > >> This morning, I noticed the power went out for about 5 seconds at > >> 7:30 or so. Has it gone out more times throughout the day? > >> > >> Aaron > >> > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Jordan Price > >> To: lindengardens at mit.edu > >> Sent: Fri, February 12, 2010 1:04:28 PM > >> Subject: [Lindengardens] Power? > >> > >> Does anyone know why the power keeps going out? > >> > >> - Jordan > >> Unit 13 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Lindengardens mailing list > >> Lindengardens at mit.edu > >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/lindengardens > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Lindengardens mailing list > >> Lindengardens at mit.edu > >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/lindengardens > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Lindengardens mailing list > > Lindengardens at mit.edu > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/lindengardens > > > _______________________________________________ > Lindengardens mailing list > Lindengardens at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/lindengardens > 
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