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In my Grand Opera i wrote..."Power drives sane men to fools
when its so easy to use it as tools". This is not some esoteric statement
on AERC or Climatic Change or Bush and Iraq or the 2 million that die each year
in India from weather and climatic induced respiratory disease or WNV or
any of that stuff. This deals with electrical power here in Va. We
hear about all the things out west and how the power companies cut
voltage. But i am going thru a brown-out, or a reduction in power that is
affecting me greatly because i have to water plants to keep them alive and for
the past 2 weeks the power has not been adequate to sustain the electrical
current to exist normally. By that i mean air conditioners, refrigerators,
irrigation (even tho we have the water we can't get it out of the ground)
etc. We live a mile from our nearest neighbor and are at the end of the
grid line and every evening lately the power has browned, dimmed, and
blacked out certain parts of the house. The last time the Power
People were here to check out this problem they informed me that they did not
even know that the Power Grid had been reduced by 5% to protect their
transformers during this period of 'Normal' summer weather of heat and
drought. My point on this is that here in Va. we are experiencing the same
things as in Ca. and elsewhere. I don't have an answer (and so far neither
do they)to my current situation and tommorrow they are coming back out to check
it again. 2 differant electricians tell me that the problem is lack of
power. We are all on a very fragile Mother Ship with too many
passengers. Maybe its time to have a really good war and kill most of us or
else start figuring how to sustain us. tom
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