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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (4959)	8/17/2003 9:26:11 AM
From: MrsNose	Respond to of 8273

Great! Thanks for sharing! Personal blackout adventure: Power went down at 4:15 like everyone else, but was back up before 9 p.m. Thursday. Had power overnight, and didn't worry about food stuffs, cause we were being really careful about opening fridge doors, little over 4 hours wasnt bad, and we were gone for part of the time. Also had needed to do groceries on Thursday, but didn't feel like chasing the kids out of the pool, so lost the chance, but meant I didn't have many perishables. Did my groceries first thing Friday morning because we were out of some things, just in case. Talked to hubby at work, and he suggested getting to the beer store. Dropped off the empties on the way (we don't leave empties at the LCBO here in our small town, the gas station has a drop-off point) and walked into the big cooler. Selected my two cases and carried them to the counter. Had just set them down when the power went down again. Good things the kids weren't with me, cause I had a few choice words directed at Ontario Hydro. Stood there and wondered what to do...$64 worth of beer, and $18 in my pocket. Had planned to use the debit card. Have to have beer you know. Looked across the aisle and noticed the VISA sticker on the other till. "Ah Ha!" I thought. Turned to the young lad behind the till and asked if they had a manual visa machine. He looked at me kind of strangely, but checked and found one. Had to show him how to put the card into it. "Champion of the weekend"...food, ice and cold beer. Power was off til about 6 p.m. Friday night, so I was lucky. All the best, Margie

To: E. Charters who wrote (4959)	8/17/2003 3:06:42 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

Sort of blows his/her credibility right off eh, with that presumption that it matters what people post on GPM -g- ... got to agree with the last line though Margie's story is just amazing - imagine a service so essential as a beer store without a backup generator ... we have a long road left to civilise this country ..... cbc radio had on a piece this morning, of a news broadcast of a blackout that hit among others the Toronto area, sounded just the same but it was from the fifties or sixties, couldn't catch all of it and didn't hear the year ..... it is a massive engineering problem to keep the lights on, and there is a trade-off in it - when you hook up all systems into a wide-area grid, you reduce greatly the incidence of local blackout but at the same time you set up the risk of the occasional cascading shutdown of the entire grid .... you could throw a lot of money at it and still not solve the problem completely, it is not easy, they say ['they' being a retired hydro guy down the road] ...... energy is too cheap, this encourages overuse ... really i think since consumption taxes make more sense than income taxes, and since energy is representative of overall consumption, this is the sector to tax fairly heavily .... but not a word of that to Ottawa, because they'd view it just as an added cash grab, instead of shifting the same or lesser tax burden to a more sensible base