Timekeeping Woes Mount
Category: Just Plain Silly...
Posted Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 08:37 AM [GMT-6]

As if to remind me that life is what happens while you're making other plans, the local electric company (Texas Power & Greed, Inc.) apparently read my post about the impending Resetting Of The Clocks, and scheduled a two-hour outage last night. This, of course, required an immediate Resetting Of The Clocks...or, at least, of the ones which didn't have battery back-ups.

I suppose I should look at it as a drill. That's fine; I'm used to getting drilled by the power company.

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"AN OVERNIGHT ACCIDENT IN MIDLAND SENDS MANY HOMES AND BUSINESSES INTO DARKNESS.
JUST AFTER ONE O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.. A MAN WAS ATTEMPTING TO USE THE TURN-AROUND AT LOOP 2-50 AND MIDKIFF.
HE WAS TRAVELING UNDER THE OVERPASS WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE.. RAN UP ON THE CURB AND STRUCK THE GUIDE WIRE OF A NEARBY POLE.
THE WIRE SNAPPED CAUSING THE TRANSFORMER TO BLOW.. CREATING A POWER OUTAGE FOR NEARBY RESIDENTS.
POLICE SAY ALCOHOL WAS A FACTOR IN THE CRASH AND TOOK THE MAN INTO CUSTODY.
CREWS WERE CALLED OUT TO FIX THE TRANSFORMER AND RESTORE POWER TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. "

http://www.cbs7.tv/newsstory.php?StoryID=938a5a9b305926988ba3ed978a0c5a38

Posted by: Bert at October 29, 2004 02:21 PM
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