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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Ilaine who wrote (58108)1/13/2001 9:47:38 AM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
<<Think of people in hospitals, people on respirators, people in elevators, jails with electric doors - they won't let the power go down. >>

I would guess those places have back-up generators. A rolling blackout with prior notice would be easier to handle than a sudden outage. Accidental outages happen. I remember when a raccoon crawled into a major substation and wiped out the power to 1/4 of Bloomington. Wiped out the coon too.
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