"Bob" wrote in
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"Charlie Self" wrote in message
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One less excuse. I just now checked the price of the battery powered
emergency
lights: around $30 to $40 each. The more costly ones are halogen,
last for about 90 minutes.

Time to install a couple.

Why do you need emergency lights? Oh yeah, don't you live in
California - the land of roving power outages?

Well, Bob, while there was sufficient home grown Californian stupidity to
go around WRT power supplies, there is documented, court-record proof that
the situation was aided, abetted, and exploited by some of the fine
citizens of the Republic of Texas as well. Some of those folks will look
good in stripes.

We've had no major problems since Enron went down, that weren't storm-
related. Of course, the easing of the drought in the West meant that hydro
power became more available, and at reasonable rates.

And Charlie lives in Virginia.

Patriarch