on 9/24/03 10:24 AM, Frederick Pollack at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Electricity here in northwest DC went off last Thursday during Hurricane
> Isabel and just went on again. Six days of rotting food, failing
> batteries, freaked-out cats, unromantic candles, no music, and only
> restaurant coffee.
Good to have you back, Frederick. Hope things are moving towards some sort
of normalcy where you are. Power cuts are very rare up here, thank god, but
we had them frequently when I was a child, i.e. before we had the sense to
place power lines underground rather than on fragile wooden poles. I
remember when in harsh winters electricity was rationed at night and we had
to take our dinners early and then sit in the dim light from candles and
oil-lamps. There was a massive power cut in southern Sweden and Denmark
earlier this week. The reports of an entire city like Copenhagen stopping
dead for hours were eerie. The fault there was not bad weather but a
break-down in a nuclear power plant in Sweden, which caused a
'chain-reaction' involving another nuclear plant and several regular power
plants.
Best
Árni
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Árni Ibsen
Stekkjarkinn 19,
220 Hafnarfjördur,
Iceland
tel.: +354-555-3991
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