July 07, 2004

Rolling Blackouts?

Oh great... the nuke plant burps. A substation catches fire. A vital powerline is endangered by a wildfire. Now we could face what Californians have been dealing with sporatically for a few years now.

Rolling blackouts.

So if the city cuts my power for up to four hours at a time, what the hell am I supposed to do with my fish tanks? Even if I put the filters on a UPS (actually three of my four tanks already are), the temperature swing from lack of A/C will likely kill them.

This is ridiculous. In this day and age, how can we be so vulnerable?

The upside of this is that I could get outta work for a few hours.

Posted by geekchik at July 7, 2004 04:37 PM