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Irene??

DSee

DSee

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Hi,

Just wondering if anyone lost power with Irene and/or had to shut down boxens to avoid problems...
We lost power @ 10:30AM, nothing yet... total chaos around the city...
 
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We lost power early this morning for about 2-3hrs

But stupid routers reset and clear out MAC filter settings......missedd almost all.day
 
I am situated in North Carolina and all we got was some wind.... Sad huh...:rolleyes:
 
Lost power about 10AM, got it back around 8PM

A little bit north of Albany, NY
 
Was Folding here in VA with some forced air cooling from the storm lol
 
We apparently lost power around 6am, I was asleep by that point, quick reboot on a few boxes and was back in business.
 
Here in fredericksburg VA power flashed 3 times making me run around restarting my boxen. lots of downed trees. picked up my daughter in myrtle beach today. I-95 from VA to NC must have had 500 downed tree's
 
We lost power Saturday night at 10:15pm. It came back today at 3:15am.

Philly area got pounded pretty bad ... lots of flooding.
 
Damit lost power at saturday night did not get it back till sunday around 12:30 cost me tons of bonus points grr
 
Just got word from some of my local buddies, Electric company is estimating Friday 11:30pm power restoration for them.
 
Was down for just over a full day, i thought it funny that the battery backups for the folders died 5x faster then the none folding boxes. =p
 
I'm glad to see you guys are getting back to it as I was afraid Irene would cause far more power disruptions. I suppose the weakening winds helped.

Here in OH, we got nothing as we got one of the nicest days in a very long time.
 
lost power for a few hours. my SR-2 is still at my parents place so i'll have to get over there at some point to start it back up. they lost power for 36 hours
 
72F and sunny, and few white, puffy clouds outside today. Forgot to open the windows in the F@H farm room. One machine overheated and went down for two hours until I got home from work. Nah, Irene wasn't much of a problem for us. (Eagle River, Alaska)
 
Linden said:
72F and sunny, and few white, puffy clouds outside today. Forgot to open the windows in the F@H farm room. One machine overheated and went down for two hours until I got home from work. Nah, Irene wasn't much of a problem for us. (Eagle River, Alaska)
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Nice to see another Alaskan here on the team. Despite the super expensive electricity being a negative, I imagine you guys pretty much have one of the best environments for large folding farms. If things work out right, I hope to be able to move to Anchorage one day.
 
I'm not a Horde member, but I am a Folder and team booster! AMDGamer, power costs are pretty close to the national average here (Eagle River).

Anyway, Irene. Anyone else get knocked out. Oh, but then you wouldn't might be posting now, would you.
 
Linden, nice to have your around here. Even if you are from Alaska.
 
Linden said:
I'm not a Horde member, but I am a Folder and team booster! AMDGamer, power costs are pretty close to the national average here (Eagle River).

Anyway, Irene. Anyone else get knocked out. Oh, but then you wouldn't might be posting now, would you.
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My understanding was that electric rates up there were around 18-20 cents per KWH. The national average in the US is around 12-14 cents. Here in Cincinnati, I believe i'm paying around 14 cents. I suppose the good thing you guys have going around Anchorage is that you never need to run the a/c in the summer and you have access to very cheap natural gas for winter heating.

No matter what team you fold for, it is always nice to see more folders around here.
 
All depends on where "up there" is. From North to South, it's about 1000 miles; East to West, about 1,400 miles. Yeah, rates in the 'bush Alaska' and remote areas are high. Where I am, it averages about $0.10/KwH. Although I'm rural, I'm close enough to population centers to get their power, which is from power plants with decent economies of scale. Unfortunately, many of the villages and small towns are reliant on very inefficient and expensive power production, such as diesel generators.

There's usually not much flooding in Alaska, except for some Northern areas near/along the Yukon River. In the spring, the ice breaks up and create natural damns as it folds and piles on itself across the river. (other rivers as well, the Yukon just springs to mind right now) The Chena River, in Fairbanks has massively flooded before, but overall most of the state has little risk of flooding.

What we are most concerned about are earthquakes. We have far more than California, but due to California's very high population density, they are more likely to be negatively affected. We and the Californians were laughing pretty well at the chaos that the itty bitty shaker caused on the East Coast last week.

But again, back to our topic - Irene - it would appear that Maine and Vermont Folders may be having a terrible time now. I hope the waters recede and their power and transportation can be restored quickly.
 
Linden said:
What we are most concerned about are earthquakes. We have far more than California, but due to California's very high population density, they are more likely to be negatively affected. We and the Californians were laughing pretty well at the chaos that the itty bitty shaker caused on the East Coast last week.
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well you have to understand how rare it was.. and it did do a little bit of damage since we don't have building codes for that kind of thing. I don't think anyone was seriously afraid, in fact many didn't notice

but the cruelest irony for me was that I was in California at the time... I spend 99.9% of my time in the NY/NJ/PA tri-state and the one time i get to CA, where you might expect to have an earthquake, we have one back home!

Still some roads closed here in NJ due to bridge damage from Irene. Most power has been restored but I know a number of people who lost it for 48+ hours
 
With all of the stuff happening at the eastern side of the country as of late I'm afraid we are due for something here in California.
 
tjmagneto said:
With all of the stuff happening at the eastern side of the country as of late I'm afraid we are due for something here in California.
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they have been saying that for 21 years.. the only thing that california is due for is not going to have anything to do with mother nature.

and back on topic, i had to turn my phone off because my grandmother refuses to stop calling me.. shes lives in friggin northern Maine and shes still freaking out about all the stupid rain.. blah blah blah..
 
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With all of the stuff happening at the eastern side of the country as of late I'm afraid we are due for something here in California.
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You guys are always due for stuff. It just boils down to making sure to not be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I suppose that is one of the prices you pay for living in Kalifornia.
 
it did do a little bit of damage since we don't have building codes for that kind of thing
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Granted.

Our home is mainly frame construction, which flexes (masonry, wihtout reinforcing rods, does not! Craaaaaacckkkkk) . It's also bolted to the foundation with numerous 3/4" diameter bolts.

I live about 700 feet above the river in the valley, so at least flooding is not a concern of mine. :cool:

If there were to be hot summers where I live (more than 75F for several days in a row), we'd be throwing a fit, and you'e be laughing at us. what goes around comes around, I suppose ;)
 
Linden said:
Granted.

Our home is mainly frame construction, which flexes (masonry, wihtout reinforcing rods, does not! Craaaaaacckkkkk) . It's also bolted to the foundation with numerous 3/4" diameter bolts.

I live about 700 feet above the river in the valley, so at least flooding is not a concern of mine. :cool:

If there were to be hot summers where I live (more than 75F for several days in a row), we'd be throwing a fit, and you'e be laughing at us. what goes around comes around, I suppose ;)
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Out of curiosity, what happens to you guys during El-Nino years? At least on the mainland, the entire west coast usually boils alive with temps that are usually only seen in the bread basket states.
 
I'm not aware of El Nino having much effect on any particular region of Alaska. Again, the state is huge, and the weather conditions can be completely different, depending where you are. Distance from the the Capitol, Juneau, to the North Slope, is like from Atlanta to Detroit.

As for warm weather, the Interior, land-locked areas (such as Fairbanks) receive the 'continental' weather - warmer in summer, colder (MUCH colder) in the winter. But as far as cold goes, Wisconsin and Minnesota in the winter are much colder than the southern coastal areas of Alaska. There are parts of Alaska where a typical winter day is rain, not snow. But then, there are parts where that typical winter day is -25F, with extreme cold days down to -50F and colder (the Interior).

What about Irene? Any folks getting their power back on and signing back into [H]? I sincerely hope there was no loss of life, injury, and that there was little or no property damage for [H]orde Folders (well, that goes for others, as well :)).

Are flood waters still rising for any of you guys? I heard that runoff from the mountains and secondary streams might take a while to manifest itself up. Or has that already happened?

Sorry, guys, I really don't want to monopolize the Irene thread with Alaska talk.
 
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You guys up in Alaska just got struck with a powerful Earthquake, I hope everything is okay?
 
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