bikeman564™ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #1 Posted August 28, 2020 Got to work, power went out 5 minutes later. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_in Ray Of Sunshine Posted August 28, 2020 Share #2 Posted August 28, 2020 Damn, that'd be nice. I'm leaving at 11 - looking forward to spending the afternoon putting brakes on my truck. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share #3 Posted August 28, 2020 Couldn't brew coffee Drove to Micky D's for one 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share #4 Posted August 28, 2020 I'm home but its raining so I'll have coffee on the deck 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted August 28, 2020 Share #5 Posted August 28, 2020 This got me to wondering... Does @petitepedal have short days? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #6 Posted August 28, 2020 Power outages were some of my longest days. Getting the servers and databases back up and running could take hours once power was restored. Often the UPS and backup generators didn't work. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtyhip Posted August 28, 2020 Share #7 Posted August 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said: I'm home but its raining so I'll have coffee on the deck Jump on your bike with fenders. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #8 Posted August 28, 2020 got in before 8 and cleaned up back conference room due to working with slobs, so it was not a complete trash can for my 11 am meeting. I kind of wish the power would go out, but our facility has back up power, and is served by dual circuits on top of that. Gonna be a long day as I will be combing through years of electronic files to build a data room / due diligence room in our drop box. yay. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share #9 Posted August 28, 2020 Just now, Dirtyhip said: Jump on your bike with fenders. I don't do rain, I'm fragile and will melt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted August 28, 2020 Share #10 Posted August 28, 2020 That was a nasty storm last night. I have water in the basement. It looks like more rain is on its way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share #11 Posted August 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, Mr. Grumpy said: That was a nasty storm last night. I have water in the basement. It looks like more rain is on its way that sucks. Some areas got 4" of rain already. Supposed to rain on/off all day I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtyhip Posted August 28, 2020 Share #12 Posted August 28, 2020 1 minute ago, bikeman564™ said: I don't do rain, I'm fragile and will melt Oh my gosh. I don't like to do MTB in rain. Riding in the wet ruins trails. Pavement is not so bad in the rain. One of my bikes is a Giant Seek. It's the best bike for the cost in the fleet. I beat the living shit out of this bike and it just goes. It has been my commute horse for the last 8 years. It climbs like crazy, has all kinds of rack mounts, can handle some light trail with ease, and has full fenders. When the snow flies, I can trust this bike to handle it. If it gets too deep, I have to take the bus. 8"+ and I have decided that a bus or a walk is acceptable. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #13 Posted August 28, 2020 Is all the rain from the hurry canes? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted August 28, 2020 Share #14 Posted August 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, jsharr said: Is all the rain from the hurry canes? Naw, it's just a regular kind of weather system that is going through. I think the 'cane is in Arkansas right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #15 Posted August 28, 2020 21 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said: I don't do rain, I'm fragile and will melt I rode in the rain one time and stopped at the LBS on my way home. The boss said that, sugar melts and shit floats and you’re not melting. Thanks boss. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted August 28, 2020 Share #16 Posted August 28, 2020 Our power at work has never gone out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #17 Posted August 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: Our power at work has never gone out. Ditto. I think our office is on the "White House grid" so it is fairly robust to begin with. They likely then have all the additional generators and back-up power options beyond ours, but it's safe to say that our little part of DC has a "special" level of power supply. At home, we lose it so infrequently that you are totally shocked when it happens. But all our lines are underground except the huge monster ones that feed NoVA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #18 Posted August 28, 2020 10 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: Our power at work has never gone out. That’s a good thing considering where you work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #19 Posted August 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, Longjohn said: That’s a good thing considering where you work. I wonder if they power the whole place on generators to keep it all running? At one of my prior offices, all the orange outlets were on the generator loop, but any regular colored outlets were on the non-generator electric loop. If power went out, the main systems - AC, security, some lighting, and anything in the orange plugs - kept on going, but not the non-essential stuff. I liked that system, but it definitely was more costly to install initially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a bunch of numbers Posted August 28, 2020 Share #20 Posted August 28, 2020 Yeah, power outages are always a nightmare for me. I have to stick around and make sure our UPSs outlast the power outage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted August 28, 2020 Share #21 Posted August 28, 2020 Our building is 2 doors down from a pretty large substation and is fed underground from that facility. In the 26 years we've been here I think we have lost power 2 or 3 times. That doesn't count the occasional building maintenance weekend planned downtime for something they needed to do. An occasional lighting strike might make the lights blink and reset the clock on the microwave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted August 28, 2020 Share #22 Posted August 28, 2020 15 minutes ago, Rick5234 said: Yeah, power outages are always a nightmare for me. I have to stick around and make sure our UPSs outlast the power outage. Can't you use something like PowerChute to gracefully shutdown the systems after a couple minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted August 28, 2020 Share #23 Posted August 28, 2020 We have many medical offices as clients on one street. Squirrels are notorious for taking out transformers at the substation for that street. Keeps us busy replacing UPS, routers and power supplies as well as ofter restarting servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #24 Posted August 28, 2020 1 hour ago, JerrySTL said: UPS At work we used to call certain people UPSs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #25 Posted August 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, groupw said: Squirrels are notorious for taking out transformers at the substation for that street Poor guys must have a tough life. Always committing suicide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a bunch of numbers Posted August 28, 2020 Share #26 Posted August 28, 2020 8 minutes ago, Mr. Grumpy said: Can't you use something like PowerChute to gracefully shutdown the systems after a couple minutes? I do. But it's not straight forward. The virtual servers have to shut down, then VMware, then the hardware. And the virtual environment doesn't come back up on it's own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #27 Posted August 28, 2020 3 hours ago, bikeman564™ said: Got to work, power went out 5 minutes later. At least you got to work. In 1972, right after Hurricane Agnes passed through, I spent a couple hours fruitlessly trying find an unflooded place where I could cross the Patapsco River and do lab work at UMBC. After I couldn't, I called someone who lived on the other side of the river and had keys to my lab and gave him instructions for how to shut-down all the experiments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted August 28, 2020 Share #28 Posted August 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, MickinMD said: I spent a couple hours fruitlessly trying find an unflooded place where I could cross the Patapsco River and do lab work at UMBC. After I couldn't, I called someone who lived on the other side of the river and had keys to my lab and gave him instructions for how to shut-down all the experiments. That sounds like the beginning of a science fiction movie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted August 28, 2020 Share #29 Posted August 28, 2020 1 hour ago, JerrySTL said: Power outages were some of my longest days. Getting the servers and databases back up and running could take hours once power was restored. Often the UPS and backup generators didn't work. IT people never want to test the back up systems because they might not work Then when they are needed, they often don’t 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #30 Posted August 28, 2020 19 minutes ago, Further said: IT people never want to test the back up systems because they might not work Then when they are needed, they often don’t At one of the credit unions I used to work at, they had backup generators to run the buildings in case of brown or blackouts. One learning experience was when they didn’t keep the batteries topped off and the generators couldn’t start. Only day we went home early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted August 28, 2020 Share #31 Posted August 28, 2020 I had a customer that has a generator to keep servers and desktops in customer service running along with almost everything else in the building. They were 24X7. Saturday morning about 9am the power went out with a handful of CS reps working in the middle of the building. The generator kicked in and the CS reps never knew there was an issue. They kelp working as usual. The IT guy on call that weekend gets pinged that the place is on generator power so he heads in to head off any issues. About the only thing not on backup power was the security system. He couldn't get in the building - no way no how... He couldn't call in to one of the CSRs because he couldn't get in contact with them without a customer account. They were happy to work away until the end of their shift. They got suspicious late in the afternoon when no one from the next shift showed up to take their places. That's when he could get in the building. He had the electrical contractor in early the following week. Lesson learned - Test everything like it's a real situation. Had there been a true emergency they would have been breaking down doors. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #32 Posted August 28, 2020 Where my wife worked they had emergency drills where everyone had to exit the underground facility with all the power off in case there was ever a problem with the backup generators. She said it was spooky. She had a large company flashlight in her desk. Most everyone had their cell phones. It was good to see they were thinking ahead. One time at the forge they blew something that controlled all the lighting. We still had power to the presses and conveyors and furnaces. It happened at night and the only light we had was the glow coming off the hot steel. I kept on running my press line. The foreman came over and shut us down, he said it wasn’t safe running in the dark. I thought it was pretty cool. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted August 28, 2020 Share #33 Posted August 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Razors Edge said: I wonder if they power the whole place on generators to keep it all running? Multiple options. We have our own powerplant across the street. We have generators that power emergency equipment - those are tested each week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 28, 2020 Share #34 Posted August 28, 2020 3 hours ago, Further said: IT people never want to test the back up systems because they might not work Then when they are needed, they often don’t Not only that, there is never really time unless someone steps up and is willing to forego something else to make time for adequate testing. Foregoing things that ostensibly make money is not in most manager's repertoires. I just had a failure of testing. The van is sitting in the driveway, and I saw I could sell it on craiglist, but it won't start now, I 'spose since I have not been running it once per week like I should have been. I am pretty sure if it had a carb I could just dump a touch of gasoline in there and it would crank up, but I don't know of any way to do that with fuel injection. What a Dumas! Hmm, I just watched a bubba Youtube that says to leave the key on so the fuel pump runs for like 30-60 seconds first - brb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted August 28, 2020 Share #35 Posted August 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Longjohn said: We still had power to the presses and conveyors and furnaces. It happened at night and the only light we had was the glow coming off the hot steel. I kept on running my press line. The foreman came over and shut us down, he said it wasn’t safe running in the dark. I thought it was pretty cool. Probably looked like Orcs forging weapons under ground at Isengard. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 29, 2020 Share #36 Posted August 29, 2020 6 hours ago, Philander Seabury said: Not only that, there is never really time unless someone steps up and is willing to forego something else to make time for adequate testing. Foregoing things that ostensibly make money is not in most manager's repertoires. I just had a failure of testing. The van is sitting in the driveway, and I saw I could sell it on craiglist, but it won't start now, I 'spose since I have not been running it once per week like I should have been. I am pretty sure if it had a carb I could just dump a touch of gasoline in there and it would crank up, but I don't know of any way to do that with fuel injection. What a Dumas! Hmm, I just watched a bubba Youtube that says to leave the key on so the fuel pump runs for like 30-60 seconds first - brb! Whelp? Didja gettit started? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 29, 2020 Share #37 Posted August 29, 2020 Just now, Longjohn said: Whelp? Didja gettit started? Oh shit. yeah! I meant to update. Bubba was spot on! Cool! Started right up, and then I discovered that all the transmission fluid has leaked oot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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