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[<sgian AT netscape.com>]

>You probably
lose elec, like we do, even in the summer on a day without any weather of
any kind. That's the worse insult, if you ask us.

Oh, yes.  The damned utility has spent zip on infrastructure and line 
maintenance since it took over Appalachian Power (which itself was no paragon 
of business model).  Last winter in that week long + power failure, a 
grandmother white pine fell on the line at the crossroads near here.  When 
they finally came to repair it, they had to cross a 15' wide stream (Harper's 
Creek).  They could have walked up the road about 1500 feet where the creek 
crosses to the other side of the road and walked back down the neighbor's 
clean hayfield, but noooo.  They spent three hours positioning the bucket 
truck so that they could hoist the workers over the stream and set them down 
on the other side.  

Oh well, the rates are really good.  But by the powers, it's almost as if 
they were looking in the window of my shop.  80% of what I do requires no 
electricity but on the very day we'd plan on milling pins or resawing planks, 
that's when the power would go out for a week.  Just gotta plan ahead more, I 
guess.

James

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