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    Default My house still exists

    My power went off for about 3 hours, turned back on, and my house is still here.

    I know you're all dissapointed. Not nearly as awesome as the promise.

    WM = 1 Gustav = 0
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    It's A-O-K folks!



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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    My power went off for about 3 hours, turned back on, and my house is still here.

    I know you're all dissapointed. Not nearly as awesome as the promise.

    WM = 1 Gustav = 0
    Boring. We have 60 MPH winds every day. If you can't keep the power on during 60 MPH winds, you need to fire your Co-op board...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grind View Post
    It's A-O-K folks!

    WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GET THAT PICTURE OF MY HOUSE FUCKIN CREEP?!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Boring. We have 60 MPH winds every day. If you can't keep the power on during 60 MPH winds, you need to fire your Co-op board...
    The free market handles our power down here Damo.

    IE I have absolutely no control over the matter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GET THAT PICTURE OF MY HOUSE FUCKIN CREEP?!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    The free market handles our power down here Damo.

    IE I have absolutely no control over the matter.
    Rubbish, all power is controlled by the PUC in your state, as well as the phones, it has nothing to do with the free market.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Rubbish, all power is controlled by the PUC in your state, as well as the phones, it has nothing to do with the free market.
    I know that there are two power companies in our area, Mississippi power, and this other Co-op board. We are just barely on the path to get it from the Mississippi Power corporation. The people who have the co-op take care of their power usually have a much more difficult time getting the power back up.
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    Mississippi has Mississippi Power Company, one of the branches of the Southern Company.

    But they offer some of the best employee benefits of any private companies, and when there are problems they can throw more equipment and men into the field than almost anyone except the government.

    I've worked with them a few times. They run a good safe show.

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    Why doesn't our electric rates go up everytime a storm approaches ?
    could it be regulation ?
    And yet the lights are still on..


    Btw glad you and your family are OK WM.
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    Yep, glad you survived the storm with house intact.

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    Most of the people who literally lose their house live on the shore and have it taken away by storm surge. It would take extremely strong winds to take down an inland home without any help from the surge. It mostly only happens to those crappy trailors.

    What's more likely is that a tree will fall on your house. Which happened to us in Katrina. It bounced right off too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    Most of the people who literally lose their house live on the shore and have it taken away by storm surge. It would take extremely strong winds to take down an inland home without any help from the surge. I've honestly never heard of it being done before.

    What's more likely is that a tree will fall on your house...
    Andrew, Hugo, etc...
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    Quote Originally Posted by uscitizen View Post
    Andrew, Hugo, etc...
    OK, did those storms literally take a thirty mile inland home completely off and leave nothing but but the slab? Without the help of a Tornado?

    Cus I went through Katrina, and it didn't do that to my home, and it was far worse than either of those pussy storms.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    OK, did those storms literally take a thirty mile inland home completely off and leave nothing but but the slab? Without the help of a Tornado?

    Cus I went through Katrina, and it didn't do that to my home, and it was far worse than either of those pussy storms.
    Pussy storms ? LOL, Hugo left a swath of destruction from the carolinas all the way up into Pennsylvania.

    It went inland in the Carolinas btw.
    , over to the applachains and north to PA and maybe NY State. I forget.
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