Power outage

Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 8 years, 4 months ago to News
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Up here in the wilds of Alaska, our power went out due to the high wind gusts, which are still going. Our generator went on quickly and the outage didn't last more than 2 hours. However, my mother owns a veterinary clinic, and the generator there didn't start... She called a handyman who had to jump it with his car. He had to go into their neighbor's yard, since it's on the backside of the building. (The manufacturer of their generator went out of business several months ago.)
Just a fiasco. Thank goodness it worked out.
Is anyone in the Gulch experiencing flooding or other natural disasters?

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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    we didn't go very far north in '09 -- only as far up the
    inside channel as Skagway -- but we fell in love with
    the rugged and ready people there ... and the wonderful
    seafood! . whatta State you have;;; beautiful !!! -- j
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  • Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Alaska really is wonderful. Our house isn't heated from a woodstove, but a lot of people up here do, including my grandparents and aunts. It's a lot of work to get enough wood ready for winter!
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Please Be Very Selective, Sarah!!! . we of the male persuasion
    should be approached with skepticism, regardless. -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    WoW, what a place! . I formerly kept a fire in the woodstove
    (a riteway 37) from october to early may, down here
    in tennessee......... up there, it would be from august
    to june! -- j
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  • Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't live in the high Arctic where there's absolutely no sunlight, but there's usually less than 6 hours around December/January. (And since most of that is spent inside school/work, you never get the chance to see daylight.)
    Summer is the opposite. My bedroom window is really large and lets in a lot of daylight. Sunset is around 11-12ish, and sunrise is 3!
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  • Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We haven't had a large earthquake recently, but we're probably overdue. The 1964 caused most of Old Valdez to be destroyed. They moved the city afterward to its present location, I believe. The earthquake didn't do as much damage as the resultant tsunamis and aftershocks. I wasn't born when that happened, so most of what I've heard is secondhand.
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 8 years, 4 months ago
    I'm just sitting here in Wyoming (at -8F this morning), waiting for Yellowstone to go BOOM...........
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    blarman, having lived in either Bangor Wa or Falls City OR for the last 35 years or so, I remember when the Prof who decoded all this first proposed the Cascadia earthquake. He was ridiculed and told that the Indian legends and Japanese records were all just stories, and it wasn't until he actually got the records of the 3 big quakes of 1700 that everyone went "huh?". Go to Port Townsend Wa and see the cliff there, the ground sank 200' in seconds, creating the cliff. Lake Washington still is populated with trees from the time it was above water. The biggest issue today is no one really knows which section will start the zipper, so it is hard to actually find some good way to monitor it. CA has so many monitors on it, they know if a flea fart happens on a fault, pretty much here it takes a lion roar. PBS did a show on the guy about 10 years ago when he was first getting some professional respect, and he goes through his whole process of discovery. Quite a bright guy.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    but mountain men will treat you like a lady and take
    very good care of you, in my experience. . strong and
    dependable, devoted and ingenious. -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    we had to do that in a house trailer which lost its
    power continuity sometimes and left the master bedroom
    without power. . double male extension cord across
    the central bedroom which we used as a study. -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    and depending on where you are, there may be
    nearly no sunlight at this time of year. . when we
    were there in 09, it was june and the sun came up
    at 3 am. . 21 foot tides. . everything is BIG and sooooo
    beautiful -- including the people!!! -- j

    p.s. preparedness is an avocation for me, since
    the boy scouts taught me some of it. . and "camping in"
    is fun if you are ready for it!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Alaska can get pretty untamed with a little help. The Major earthquake in the 60's

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    1964 Alaska earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and ... resulting in the deaths of 30 people between the collapse of the Valdez city ... 68 people who lived there; survivors out-ran the wave, climbing to high ground. .... Twelve people were killed by the tsunami in or near Crescent City, California, ...

    The earthquake caused the high walls of a very narrow canon to collapse into the water below as I recall. the water burst out like a fire hose knocked out a lot of the Valdez area and the earthquake continued to reinforce. This power pushed south into southern oregon and northern california waxing Brookings/Harbor just north of the stateline and Crescent City to the south. That gave the water motive force. When it neared the proper demersal topography a sloping shelving coast line the water builds higher and higher. The most damage was not the initial wave going ashore but reversing itself and heading back to the ocean. Only to be caught up by the follow on.in what we military types would call force multiplier. Going south to Mendocino county the Mendocino ridge runs into the and out to sea for around a hundred miles in gradually increasing depths. Water coming down the coast and closer in shore is caught and diverted towards land. Same thing. shelving builds waves and fuels their height and speed. All because some canyon wall in Alaska decided to go walkabout. In the eastern Atlantic there is one particular island. here's a link and partial description. ed by ..... A tsunami ball simulation. Ital.
    Scientists Warn Of Massive Tidal Wave From Canary Island ...
    rense.com/general13/tidal.htm
    Science Editor ... Britain, say scientists who have analysed the effects of a future volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands. ... the Isle of Man would break away from the island of La Palma and smash into the Atlantic Ocean to cause a ." mega tsunami. Various estimate models shoe theastern seaboard of the USA might cease to exist. It's the stuff of Disaster movies in real life. Not to worry the west coast of the USA is one huge fault line system from Vancouver island to the Sea of Cortez. Let's hope they all stay ....friendly.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Probably just another made up corporate position we've created to fleece normal people by stealing all their 1) hard work and 2) ideas. Yeah, I'm an idea man. Just like Micheal Keaton in Night Shift!
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