It's Already 2AM: 32nd Edition... Jak-E has iPhone 5 envy

Woah, Jon is using a new avatar, I didn't recognize him at first!

http://www.newsday.com …-10-days-to-fix-1.4165032

WOW. 900k+ of LIPA's customers are without power... out of their 1.1 million

Jon wrote in post #15188221
Nope lots of our power lines are above ground and trees take them out. Then we have the odd exploding substation taking out a few square miles at a time.

I see... yeah the trees is usually the ones that will take out the powerlines.

nice avatar indeed.

laxlife1234 wrote in post #15188279
http://www.newsday.com …-10-days-to-fix-1.4165032

WOW. 900k+ of LIPA's customers are without power... out of their 1.1 million

wow!!! Hows the weather there now?

Blurr Cube wrote in post #15187776
Disney bought Lucasfilm!

Yep! And all you Darth Vader types will have to glue Mickey Mouse ears to your helmets.

themadman wrote in post #15188211
Ya... they are also gonna make a new Star Wars every 3 years or so.

I wonder how ol' Darth would come across with Mickey's voice....

marvel/star wars crossover coming soon

monk3y wrote in post #15188300
I see... yeah the trees is usually the ones that will take out the powerlines.

nice avatar indeed.


wow!!! Hows the weather there now?

The weather here is cold but otherwise perfect lol. Its funny cause where I live we only had wind... no rain or anything so much for a super intense hurricane wherei live. But I cant complain I could have lived on a shore and seen my hoise go bye bye.

laxlife1234 wrote in post #15188460
The weather here is cold but otherwise perfect lol. Its funny cause where I live we only had wind... no rain or anything so much for a super intense hurricane wherei live. But I cant complain I could have lived on a shore and seen my hoise go bye bye.

Yeah if its a typhoon, usually the center or eye is pretty calm, its the outer ring of the typhoon and the heavy rains that it tags along that does most of the damage

Hurricanes are totally different

Jericobot wrote in post #15188179
hmm, how do I get am english teaching job in PI

Public or private school? Big gap in salaries. Not much either way.

monk3y wrote in post #15188207
Haha why would you wanna do that? You'll end up getting a Monthly salary of about the same as what you get in 3-4 days there in Hawaii

Yeap and most of the time the towers and power lines are high up and built better than homes so they usually end up not getting damage at all unless the power companies decide to cut power in certain areas due to risk.

We experience flooding every year back home so its not new to me

Wait, most of your powerlines run underground? So if it floods then they have to cut it off I guess.

Ongoing program around here is to place utitlities underground. It really is a nightmare down there in some areas... good as-built maps are a must.

20droger wrote in post #15188357
Yep! And all you Darth Vader types will have to glue Mickey Mouse ears to your helmets.

Darth "Goofy".

monk3y wrote in post #15188543
Yeah if its a typhoon, usually the center or eye is pretty calm, its the outer ring of the typhoon and the heavy rains that it tags along that does most of the damage

Hurricanes are totally different

Well its weird we were north of the eye and people a mile away from me had a ton of rain... oeople on the shore were just straight up flooded though.

Blurr Cube wrote in post #15188607
Ongoing program around here is to place utitlities underground. It really is a nightmare down there in some areas... good as-built maps are a must.

Its very clean though if everything is underground... look how bad it is back home

laxlife1234 wrote in post #15188643
Well its weird we were north of the eye and people a mile away from me had a ton of rain... oeople on the shore were just straight up flooded though.

I guess you guys are really just lucky

Jon wrote in post #15188221
Nope lots of our power lines are above ground and trees take them out. Then we have the odd exploding substation taking out a few square miles at a time.

most of our towers here are feed by t3 or t1's,some have gone to fiber with the power pairs being feed through copper. And the towers actually owned by us have generators that feed off of gas and or propane. We also have crews that tow diesel generators to sites too. Matter of fact in a few day some guys are headed to Connecticut to help out. I dont work on those systems but i'll go if they ask, Honestly i'd rather go to the midwest.

laxlife1234 wrote in post #15188643
Well its weird we were north of the eye and people a mile away from me had a ton of rain... oeople on the shore were just straight up flooded though.

north west side of the storm is always the strongest,at least everyone that hits here its that way. when the eye passes south of us we get more damage when it hits us head on like Fran and Bertha and Hazel its usually catastrophic, but we are also not as populated as NYC.