Subj : Do Not Call To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Jul 02 2019 15:28:00 Hi Nancy! BM> Here "Channel 6" which is the TV station I usually look at for the BM> news and weather also has a few-times-a-day e-mail with links to their BM> website for the remainder of the story. If something catches my eye BM> might click for more information. NB> I think I'd just find that annoying, to be getting all those NB> emails... :) I've learned to scan and so if nothing catches my eye ends up in the Deleted folder very quickly. And there are enough items of interest to make the scan time worthwhile; items I've missed for whatever reason on the live broadcast. Most have a story so I don't need to go through the newsroom video segment, so even faster. BM> OTOH if looking rather nasty outside will probably go to Weather BM> Underground to look at what's going on - can 'pull back' and look at BM> the bigger picture - and mostly admire all the pretty colours! NB> Oh, that's right, you're looking at the graphic version on the NB> website, as opposed to the text version via telnet like I do... :) As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words! ...Reading " a giant blob of yellow, orange and red is coming your way!!" just doesn't have the same impact. BM>>> ...Barry and just about everyone in the city calls: whoa! lightning BM>>> struck the substation! (That did happen years ago: except I was BM>>> working. Drive over the hill and - darkness!) NB>>> That must have been a shock....! Hopefully everyone else had NB>>> already called it in that time.... ;) BM>> Oh yeah! I don't recall when it happened but was an hour or so before BM>> I got off work; someone at the store received a phone call and spread BM>> from there? Was still kind of a shock: drive along normally. At the BM>> top of the hill could see too much darkness but the middle of the hill BM>> is a patch of woods so no lights anyway. At the base of the hill is a BM>> major intersection and just beyond that I-74, so some lighting, but BM>> after that - dark! NB>> Good thing your headlights worked... :) BM> That would have been really bad!! NB> At the very least you'd've had to wait until your eyes adjusted NB> to the dark.... Don't wait too long as travelling around 30 MPH! Good news is most people slowed down because of the dark conditions, Posted speed is 35 though most people accidentally go 40 ==> it's a four lane street that's wide enough to be a highway; was used as the truck detour about a month ago for the I-74 Bridge construction. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Prepositions are not a good thing to end a sentence with. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .