RW>RN> I think I recall exchanging some mail with you about that the month
RW>RN> after Katrina made landfall.
 
RW> DOn't know, I may have talked to you when planning on bringing fido back
RW> up when I lived in SLidell. got my bellsouth email back about a month
RW> after Rita.  I had tons of email waiting on bellsouth's server when I
RW> first got conneced again .
 
Yep, that's where you were, although Katrina caused a lot of damage there as well.
 
RW> Was working on getting back in to provide emergency comms and start
RW> getting my house back together. By the time I got gear together though
RW> they'd already powered up the grid and my house went up in smoke.
 
That exact same thing happened to the fellow who lived across from me.  He
stayed in a 40'x10' trailer and was virtually untouched until the power
came back on and fried his trailer from the inside out.  He should have
known something like that could happen (I do feel sorry for him) and pulled
the master switch off; then he could have disabled everything inside his
trailer and turned them on one at a time after enabling the master switch. 
That may not have worked, but at least he'd be there to minimize the
damage.
 
RW>RN> Hopefully, that will be the LAST time you and I or anyone else has
RW>RN> to go through that.
 
RW> HOpefully you're right, but for many reasons, not just what I wanted to
RW> do before, but my audio production business is now in the back of a 19
RW> ft. box truck.  WOn't lose all that gear again!!!
 
Famous last words.  (-:
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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