Walter, hope you're doing ok.

[Walter Bright]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> I haven't talked with Walter, but I do know that his area of town is still 
> without power.  The estimates I saw were for wednesday or thursday to get 
> the high power lines repaired.

I often went out jogging and would stop and yak with the powerline 
repairmen. I learned a lot about how the high tension wires work that 
way. I wouldn't want their job, though, those guys worked 17 hours on, 7 
off, and they stay working till everyone is up. They said they'd be 
working through New Year's.

Fun fact: I asked them what they did about idiot homeowners who plugged 
generators into their home circuits, thus energizing the main power 
lines and putting the linemens' lives at risk. The guy laughed and said 
they clamped all the lines to ground before working on them, shorting 
out those generators. Serve's 'em right!

Not so fun fact: Numerous people died because they either brought their 
generator or charcoal grill inside. You'll poison yourself even running 
the generator in the garage with the garage door wide open. It got so 
bad that the newspaper ran front page headlines warning people about this.