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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 20:43:59 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Railman718 on Thu Jul 26 20:41:43 2012. Bad emaily? Try above ... |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 20:44:50 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Railman718 on Thu Jul 26 20:41:43 2012. And traceroute shows that Verizon took a dump down south though our mail server is in Austin, TX ... |
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Posted by Railman718 on Thu Jul 26 20:45:46 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 20:43:59 2012. Done.. |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Jul 26 21:04:10 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by orange blossom special on Thu Jul 26 18:54:46 2012. Actually, it's almost like a hurricane, just much quicker. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 21:04:59 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Railman718 on Thu Jul 26 20:45:46 2012. Sent ya the goods ... my sympathies for them, they're in the orange zone which comes after the reds for attention. Probably tomorrow. Central Headache is the reason why I *jumped* at the opportunity to move north to Smallbany out of Ulcer county. They make Orange and Rockland look good. :( |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Jul 26 21:08:26 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Jul 26 20:11:04 2012. Derecho, the new buzzword in television and IPads for the uninformed. |
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Posted by Railman718 on Thu Jul 26 21:09:23 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 21:04:59 2012. Yeah thanks it does look bad for them...Chit his brother is out too he lives in Stormville wow... |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 21:13:57 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Railman718 on Thu Jul 26 21:09:23 2012. Stormville will get re-lit long before anyone else. But there's where you'll find the info if anyone wants to know. Keep it handy. My guess is that Stormville will be back up just after midnight except for any individual house drops that are on the ground, Fishkill should be back up by afternoon tomorrow unless IBM is out. If IBM is dark, then they'll be back up tonight and screw Stormville.If IBM ain't sucking electrons, they'll go broke at Central Headache. :) |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Jul 26 21:14:57 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 26 20:28:20 2012. We did that in Baltimore and a lot of Maryland two weeks ago, we lost power for 4 days, it went out that Monday and came back on that Friday at 3:00 AM!! The flack is still flying with BG&E (the power company) and PEPCO (DC and Maryland counties surrounding DC,) and the Governor. Stay tuned. |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Jul 26 21:17:19 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 20:44:50 2012. Sounds like you know who. Verizoff!!!! |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 21:18:10 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Jul 26 21:17:19 2012. Well ... sky was sparking and Verizon doesn't do grounding very well ... heh. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 26 21:18:36 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Jul 26 21:14:57 2012. Perhaps you didn't see my questions in another thread.My cousin worked for Social Security in Baltimore for many many year What did you do there? |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Jul 26 21:27:32 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Jul 26 21:08:26 2012. Exactly. In 2010, it was "microburst". It's all just a big mofo thunderstorm. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 21:37:02 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Jul 26 21:27:32 2012. Derechos are bow-echoes with plenty of rotation in supercells with rotating winds horizontally along the bow. They often spawn tornadoes with enough downward pressure to bend the rotating winds aloft. Microbursts on the other hand are straight downward wind from the chimney of the storm radiating outward in a straight line once the wind hits the ground. Not comparable at all. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Jul 26 21:43:35 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by orange blossom special on Thu Jul 26 18:49:31 2012. You're not in Central Florida anymore? |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Jul 26 21:47:26 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 20:37:43 2012.  |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 21:49:04 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Jul 26 21:47:26 2012. Man the lifeboats! :) |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Jul 27 00:18:11 2012, in response to ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Railman718 on Thu Jul 26 17:51:32 2012. Best question I heard today: "Is it safe to get on the train with all this lightning?"I started trying to explain to her what a Farady cage is, but gave up and just told her "Yes, it's safer than being on the platform". |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Fri Jul 27 04:13:36 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Jul 26 21:27:32 2012. LOOK AT THE TREE!!! OOOOHHHHHH THE TREE!!!! |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Fri Jul 27 04:18:47 2012, in response to ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Railman718 on Thu Jul 26 17:51:32 2012. Very impressive light show. Not the usual "blink and you'll miss it" lightning. Lightning went off in one cloud, and then set off a chain reaction across the entire sky. All forky cloud-to-cloud, with an occasional cloud-to-ground, and it kept going off for three-to-four second intervals, so you could actually see it clearly.I'm shocked I was still able to make my station-stops on the (7) line.... |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 27 04:28:43 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by G1Ravage on Fri Jul 27 04:18:47 2012. Real motorpeeps use the force anyway. I mean really ... how many times a day do you stop there? :) |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Fri Jul 27 06:02:31 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 27 04:28:43 2012. 47 million times. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 27 06:04:12 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by G1Ravage on Fri Jul 27 06:02:31 2012. Buzzzz! Correct answer is "over 9000." :) |
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Posted by TERRapin station on Fri Jul 27 06:16:20 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Train Dude on Thu Jul 26 21:18:36 2012. He picked his nose and ate it. And occasionally he'd open his mail. I have a connection to someone there through the industry. |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Fri Jul 27 15:09:06 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by TERRapin station on Fri Jul 27 06:16:20 2012. 100% BULL!!!! Show the PROFF, Turtle!!!! |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Fri Jul 27 15:12:56 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 21:18:10 2012. Yup!! Dropped Verizoff for Comcast Phone service, The cost from Verizoff was $41.00 /Month (no long distance) and the addition to the bill was $13.00 with Long Distance. Even made them take down their drop. |
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Posted by TERRapin station on Fri Jul 27 15:45:04 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Fri Jul 27 15:09:06 2012. Hmmm, I'll have to get right on that. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 27 18:45:28 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 26 21:18:10 2012. When FiOS first came to New York, their failure to ground their boxes caused many a house fire. :( |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Fri Jul 27 19:18:25 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Jul 26 21:43:35 2012. the dem's convinced me that Mexico was the way to go. |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Sat Jul 28 22:04:19 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 27 18:45:28 2012. Glad I live in Baltimore City. Verizoff can't install FiOS in the city as the first cable company got a "Only One" franchise and every company until 2003 got the same condition. The last one was in the AT&T family and the Feds got involved as AT&T had too many cable companies and they had to sell some. Here's Baltimore City surrounded by a sea of Comcast all around so they bought it for 5.5 Million then discovered they had to put 15 M into it to bring it up to their standards. But they also got the "Only One franchise. When Verizoff wired the county for FiOS they stopped four feet from the city line on my street. My daughter and her husband live in the county (2 blocks away) so they dumped Comcast for FiOS. Nothing to write home about. Verizoff is also playing fast & loose in their ads, they don't say that the FiOS only goes to a box (either on the side if the house or inside) then it's the same coax cable that was already there to the box by the TV. It ain't fiber to the box. Typical Verizoff. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 28 22:13:41 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Sat Jul 28 22:04:19 2012. That's how it was designed to work actually. Think of the box at the house as being similar to the cable box that goes on top of the set. Only one channel comes out on the line to the set which is selected in the box. Same deal with what they're doing. It's familiar to folks and besides ... most sets don't have a fiber connector anyway. :) |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Sun Jul 29 14:37:58 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 28 22:13:41 2012. The box in my daughter's house is in their basement. That's where the connection to the coax (left over from the cable companies) takes over. The Verizoff boxes are different than the cable boxes we are all used to and the display is smaller than the boxes Comcast uses.BTW, Cable (and Verizoff boxes) are too big to go on to top, plus few people have picture tube TVs any more. Our living room box is in a nice wood & glass box and the bedroom box sits on top of my chest of drawers along with a VCR. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jul 29 17:28:14 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Sun Jul 29 14:37:58 2012. Yeah, Verizoff designed their ONU boxes to pick up the house CATV and telephone pairs since their intent was to use both. They never came out our way in Voorheesville (though they DID put the fiber on the poles in order to collect the revenue for not wiring them up (thanks, NYSPSC) since all you have to do to get paid in NY is to hang shit on poles, there's no requirement to actually wire it up. :(So we had DirecTV out there and so I built a rack in the basement and put in modulators for the VCR's, DVD players, video server and the two receivers along with RF-based remote control repeaters. So all anyone had to do in any of the rooms was turn on the TV, pick a channel for the device with the remote and then control the device with the remote through a set top pyramid that relayed the remotes back to the rack downstairs. Pretty neat arrangement indeed and all that sat on any of the sets was the little Radio Shack pyramid to pick up the IR from the remotes and transmit it downstairs. |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Aug 9 20:34:58 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jul 29 17:28:14 2012. My daughter and son-in-law have a standard telephone drop wire, plus the old Caltech & Comcast cable plus the FiOS fiber that goes into the box in the basement that has a cable output that is hooked into the old cable that Andy's deceased mother had put in when she got Caltech cable years ago.Verizoff doesn't do new installs right. They used Andy's dead mother's name on the account even though he initiated the install. Sheesh!!!! |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Aug 9 20:42:57 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Aug 9 20:34:58 2012. Our state's PSC has volumes of comic books about Verizon's non-union "craft installers" and the lashups they've done. Powercablegasophone! :) |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Aug 9 21:13:54 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Aug 9 20:42:57 2012. I suspect Maryland's PSC has the same number, back into the 1970's when it was the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company, part of the Bell System. When My Wife and I moved back to the house I grew up in in 1983, C&P had just been ordered by the PSC to allow anyone who knew telephone wiring to do it, not just C&P folks. A good long time friend of mine who all the tools and I rewired the phone lines, putting phone jacks and wall phones in every room (on three floors) except the bathrooms (Bell System practices forbade standard phones in bathrooms due to the 92 volt ringing current. Drop the phone in the bathtub (with water in it) while it rings and bye-bye user.) Today Verzoff lets everybody with tools do it (for a hefty price) with the lots of portable phones today you can have a phone in a bathtub (but don't drop it in the water). Potables are cheaper than ever, we just replaced a 3 portable system with a 4 phone portable system for less $$$ that the old system. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Aug 9 21:17:19 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Thu Aug 9 21:13:54 2012. We lived dangerously at our place ... jacks in the bathroom as well. But we cheated, we had wireless phones on the wall in them. :)Pulled in nice 18 gauge D station wire, not that crappy 24 gauge stuff. |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Fri Aug 10 05:29:44 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 27 06:04:12 2012. THERE'S NO WAY THAT CAN BE RIGHT!! CAN IT?? |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Aug 10 05:36:48 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by G1Ravage on Fri Aug 10 05:29:44 2012. Just checked. 47 million is definitely up there!
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Fri Aug 10 20:57:51 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Aug 9 21:17:19 2012. When we did it, everything was to Bell System requirements at low cost. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Aug 10 21:06:59 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Fri Aug 10 20:57:51 2012. BSP 500 ... once upon a time I got paid to enforce it. :)Exceeding BSP was its own reward ... |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Sat Aug 11 21:27:28 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Aug 10 21:06:59 2012. You betcha!!! It's all still there, but Virzoff ain't getting the bucks any more. I even made them remove their drop. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Aug 11 21:31:04 2012, in response to Re: ROUGH Weather Ahead?, posted by Dan Lawrence on Sat Aug 11 21:27:28 2012. When they couldn't hook us up in the same month we ordered when we moved here, they lost a lifetime customer. Cost the MTA some money too. :) |
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