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To: Big Dog who wrote (48)	3/20/2001 11:06:47 AM
From: pz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206338

Pretty sad picture. drudgereport.com dailynews.yahoo.com Paul

To: Big Dog who wrote (48)	3/20/2001 11:24:32 AM
From: upanddown	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206338

Big Great idea for a new thread. You get a few more emergencies like this and they will be begging to anchor your barges off Santa Monica. "We had blow dryers going," complained Beth Busbee, assistant manager at Carlton Beauty Salon in the Santa Monica Place Mall, where shopping was dimmed before 3 p.m. "We were in mid-color on several clients," Busbee said. "We had to send one woman out with wet hair. She wasn't thrilled." And then real problems like this... At Delco Machine & Gear in Long Beach, a maker of precision parts for the aerospace industry, Monday's brief blackout shut off dozens of sophisticated metal cutting machines. The cost: at least $30,000 worth of damaged goods. "This isn't like shutting off a washing machine or a hair dryer," said Nick Campanelli, vice president of manufacturing. "I just lost a tremendous amount of parts that I can't recover." Starting with taken-for-granted stuff like traffic lights and elevators, the dependence on electric power is amazing. Restaurants can't cook and businesses that depend on credit card validation can't function. Stone age stuff. John