OT: Holy crap, it's windy outside!
There are currently 350K customers without power in SE Michigan. Amazingly, I'm not one of them, although my son's school has no power. Apparently the kids are having a great time "learning" without power. Hopefully LSA is working overtime to get everything sorted out.
Any damage in your neighborhood? Are you posting in the dark from your phone that's about to die?
outside at work and jokingly told some skinny people that I'd be willing to be Ballast for them so they don't blow away.
#WillWorkForFood
#BeingFatHasItsBenefits
He's a 4-paw recruit out of Maine. Like most cats, low motor is an issue.
Great burst off the line, but seems to randomly lose interest after a few plays.
Most seem to have big issues with proper pad level.
I...Can't...Stop...Watching...
Birch Run High School has major roof damage.
Yeah, we just lost a whole row of shingles and the ridge is about to give out.
I've already found one piece of shingling and I'm praying more don't come off. My roof is too high for me to easily get up there without killing myself. This is the windiest day in Ann Arbor I've seen in quite a long time.
If that’s the case you may get a new roof for the cost of your insurance deductible. My roof is starting to get old and I am rooting for a good hail storm in the next few years.
are pretty much why I created the thread.
Polish?
Just referencing the old joke, people! Relax!
But you posted anyway in a "sorry, not sorry" kind of way.
I'll speak for him: we're both okay with it.
Well that settles it.
Skateboarding home like a boss.
Or this unfortunate one:
i cant stop watching and now I cant stop laughing!
Loved this show.
It's windy all over. 35 mph right now in metro Chicago, with gusts up to 55 mph. Spoke with someone in St. Paul MN an hour ago, windy there as well. However, not nearly as many with power outages . . . only about 20k.
As far north as Canada. It's been brutal here in Duluth for two days, and a missionary friend of mine in Nunavut is experiencing 50 mph winds and blizzard conditions.
And it gets better--serious cold is on the way!
power has been flickering on and off.
And in more important news, my neighbor's recyclables are all over my lawn.
humanity!
does the hospital seriously not have backup generators powerful enough to run everything? I work at a bank FFS and we can go over a week on generators without needing to refuel.
I work in a UM building that's supposed to have full backup generator capability as well and the power has flickered here several times. Lab equipment getting wrecked. Maybe it's the power surges rather than lack of power? Not an electrical engineer so I won't speculate further.
They definitely have redundant power available. Maybe they're cancelling non-urgent procedures.
Computers that never go out have been flickering on and off. My wife works in an area where they do critical surgeries and none are being done today.
You didn't ask about my neighbor's recycling items though. Some of these nitwits don't even wash out their recycled food containers and then it blows in my yard. I need to start an OCD thread...
I'm real glad this isn't my trash night.
with an OCD thread.
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They have generators. The generators aren't supposed to keep every lightbulb in a hospital lit; they maintain crucial equipment, of which there is a lot. And they have to be started up.
Trauma patients will get taken care of. Elective surgeries can be delayed.
They don't have to start them, hospitals have to have standby generators that come on automatically if power goes out. Unless it were a very old, private hospital, but it's UM.
AND generally modern standby systems have a conditioning component so there aren't any surges, flickering, etc. But like you said, it's UM.
Your bank probably doesn't rely on MRIs.
It's always windy here, in Chicago...
nickname it the Windy City or something like that.
That may not be why they call it Windy City. Allegedly the term was coined during the World Fair, due to the "wind" blowing by Chicago residents about how Chicago is the best city. This may or may not be an urban legend though.
"Chicago switched from the Garden City to the Windy City in 1886, several years before Dana's comment (at the World's Fair about the politicians). The earliest citation was from the Louisville Courier-Journal in early January, 1886, when it was used in reference to the wind off Lake Michigan. In other words, the average mope was right all along! "
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/244/why-cant-cecil-get-his-fac…
60+mph gusts. Luckily, no power outages for us.
I have power still but there is a downed line in front of my place sparking and burning the hell out of the cement. Unsurprisingly anything DTE is not working right now.