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To: Gus who wrote (38)	9/22/2003 11:24:40 AM
From: Hal Campbell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186

We were fortunate, Gus. Thanks for asking. Go our power back in 35 hours or so. Many hundreds of thousands still without...including dozens of traffic lights. PEPCO spokesmen are saying the remnant of Isabel we caught did more damage than any other storm in corporate memory. Which seems odd to me. Subjectively, I've been around a few dozen storms in various places that seemed far more violent. Have been out in much stronger winds....I thought this area got off very easily both in duration and intensity . Maybe it was the breadth of it. And there must have been bizarre accelerated gusts that weren't generally evident, because one of em just sheared a very big old tree on our street near its base like a chain saw. Left it sprawled out across the road. Clean cut. The thousands of very old trees around this area are a factor in the apparent fragility of the power grid here too, I guess. Hey I may have dreamed I saw that failure rate. Please don't sweat it....know you are a busy man. Thanks for the very interesting link. Will read with closer attention when I get the time. Later Gus.