Very OT

Posted by Juno B on October 2, 2009, 6:00 pm

Is it just me or does anyone else see the irony in the following
article. It's about our local power company.
Juno

Customers of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. may now obtain
geographical information on electric service interruptions due to storms
and other emergencies through an interactive map, available in the
StormCentral section of Central Hudson's Web site.
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The Web site is www.cenhud.[0x07]com/StormCentral.html.

New York State Electric and Gas customers can also access outage
information at www.nyseg.com/out[0x07]ages, which provides power
interruption information based on location, storm safety tips and a link
to report an outage.

The Central Hudson map pinpoints the location of power outages in the
utility's service area, provides the number of affected customers and
offers estimated restoration times.

The map is available around the clock and updated every 15 minutes.

Users may see an overview of all outages, as well as outages and
restoration information by county, municipality and individual address.

A short, instructional video on the outage map is available on the Web
site, highlighting its many features.

The Poughkeepsie-based utility said customers should still report their
power condition after damaging storms to help Central Hudson determine
the extent and location of needed repairs, and to provide the
information used to update the map and the data systems.

Posted by Pogonip on October 2, 2009, 6:28 pm

Juno B wrote:
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Uhhhh......how do you access that website when you have no power?
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/

Posted by Juno B on October 2, 2009, 6:34 pm

Pogonip wrote:
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And that dear friend is the catch. Maybe you just whistle!
Juno

Posted by Olwyn.Mary on October 2, 2009, 10:14 pm

Juno B wrote:
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You use your laptop on battery power, or perhaps you can bring it up if
you have a Blackberry type device or web access on your cell phone. I
don't have any of the latter ones, ust the laptop.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

Posted by Juno B on October 2, 2009, 10:24 pm

Olwyn.Mary wrote:
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I don't have any of those toys and don't plan on getting them either.
The people I know with lap tops are either working people or students.
I did tell DH we could always call one of our out of town kids on the
TracFone and have them check. I do have a thingy for storms that we can
recharge the phone on. But how many people have generators to recharge
phones or computers on. We have had more than 1 outage here that has
gone on for 3 or 4 days.
Juno

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