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Retired[_2_]

On 10/15/17 5:14 PM, wrote:

Your screen pool cover held up well. A cousin was in the business.
Hurricanes bought him a lot of bread & butter

Ah ha ! - I was wondering what what that was.
... didn't want to ask and sound stoopider than normal.

We're presently enjoying gusts up to 80 km / hour -
warnings started yesterday at noon ..
Power is off, my little Honda generator is screaming.
For many years I have wondered about rigging/buying a
device to tell me when grid power returned -
at night it's obvious when the streetlights come on -
during the day - I ask my one neighbour to phone me.
Recently - I just check for my neighbours' Wi-Fi
signals to appear on my laptop - usually 7 or 8 of them -
during the outage - just one.
... mind you - that doesn't work after I've gone to bed.
ps: Clare - the "Power-Bak" device, mentioned here
is not a stock item anywhere that I've called -
custom order .. re-stocking fee ..
*It would be nice to have a loud audible & simple
device - to alert of grid power ON.*
John T.

Plug in a vacuum cleaner with the switch on. Set it next to your bed :-)