[SECC] Lights on

[Daniel Jeswald]

Hopefully most of the SECC members had minor damage.  I did here in East
Central Alabama.  My highest organic antenna support (tree) had its top and
large side branchs ripped off.  Lost the 20 meter loop,  but I have it all
down and its all in one piece.  I've been wanting to re-arrange it anyway.  

Did lose power for 3 12 days.  Finally found a human at Alabama Power and
explained the situation.  Two hours later they came out and flipped the
switch on the pole.  Amazing how much I have learned about this grid I am
on in the last five years of complaining about power line noise.

Dan/W4NTI


> [Original Message]
> From: Jeffrey D Clarke <ku8e at bellsouth.net>
> To: secc <secc at contesting.com>
> Date: 9/19/04 10:36:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [SECC] Lights on
>
> Archie,
>
> Sorry to hear about that....  We experienced a 12 hour outage during
Frances
> and I found that to be unbearable....
>
>
>      I was in Atlanta all this week for a training class. The worse part
> came thru around 4:30 PM on Thursday afternoon. Lots of wind and rain. It
> looks like there were lots of trees and some flooding problems in the
metro
> area from watching the news. It was interesting - when I came back to my
> room at Embassy Suites, Thursday afternoon - the rain was beating against
> the window of my room so hard that that it was leaking thru the weather
> stripping.  They also had water leaking thru in several places in the
atrium
> from the skylight windows !!!
>
>     I noticed lots of trees and limbs down on the drive home Friday - 
when
> I got to Pine Mountain , around Callaway Gardens and here to Hamilton.
> Luckly, not much happened here and the wife said the power flicked a few
> times but no power outages.....
>
>                         73, Jeff
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "archie mckay" <arcub at alltel.net>
> To: "secc" <secc at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:21 AM
> Subject: [SECC] Lights on
>
>
> > Lost power Thursday night, it returned late Saturday. It was 49 hours of
> > darkness. You can't run radios with a candle. Ivan took down a G5RV, but
> did
> > not disturb a roof mounted tribander. Things got sort of interesting up
> here
> > in the N.E. Ga. mountains. Two neighbors' homes slid off the foundations
> and
> > one house slid about 50 yards down the mountain and what was left of it
is
> > on the road.
> > Note to John, K4BAI: if you are planning a trip to Highlands you can
> cancel
> > those plans. The Dillard-Highlands road is washed out between Sky Valley
> and
> > Dillard. Sorry to hear about all the antenna damage sustained by SECC
and
> > SEDXC members.
> > 73, Archie, K4GA
> >
> >
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