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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (7132)7/24/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
<The power was out for 12 hours+, in the middle of winter, the water pipes didn't freeze, it was really no big deal.>

LOL - Power went out in Houston over Christmas holidays about 10 years ago. I don't know for how long. I was out of town.

Temperature was only about 5-10 degrees below zero. Houston's building code is not the same as it is up north.

Pipes froze in my house ... and in over 30,000 other homes. I came back from visiting my family in Ohio ... and found my downstairs flooded.

Spent hours on the phone. Couldn't get thru to a plumber.

Finally walked to a major intersection and stood in front of a truck from a plumbing company, when he stopped for a red light. Took him back to my place. Neighbors got in line and called friends to come on by.

It was a big deal to me.

It took over 2-weeks to get all those busted pipes fixed throughout Houston. Not enough repair people, even when they came in from other places and gouged some with their prices.

My point, Cheeky - is know one knows where this thing will hit and for how long.

I bet those people in Ontario, Quebec and up-state New York were happy they had generators when power was out due to that ice storm.

How many weeks was it that power was down??

Cheryl
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