UGGHHHH power outage and now i have to reformat!! [rant]

[LongCoolMother]

GEEZ!! this is the 5th blackout we've had in the past MONTH. i dont know what the hell PG&E is doing, but my neighbors, and myself included are really not pleased with their service. now i have to reset the clocks AGAIN. seriously...this is BS!!!

i was just reinstalling all the software onto my main computer after reformatting it. well, it was in the middle of installing service pack 1 when KABOOOOOM. lights went out. so frustrated, grabbed a flashlight, and when the lights didnt come back on for an hour, i just went to take a shower and went to bed.

this morning turns out it had been blacked out for what? 3 HOURS?!?!?! this is even longer than the previous 5 times. now my PC wont boot correctly into xp anymore because i suppose something was modified during the *half* installation of the service pack. im stuck here reinstalling everything.

....and would have thought they got a grip on the california power crisis by now....

/end rant

 

[Mill]

It could have been a car hitting a pole or any other thing that caused it. I wasn't aware Cali was having rolling blackouts or EVER had them at night.

 

[Freejack2]

I was there a couple of weeks ago for training. Got pretty hot one day and they were doing the rolling blackouts. The hotel was without power for a few hours.

 

[Kevin]

Invest in a UPS, its worth it...

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: Kevin
Invest in a UPS, its worth it...

APC is your friend

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Kevin
Invest in a UPS, its worth it...

 

[megosbsd]

Actually, NCR makes better UPS's now than APC does. Just FYI.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Millennium
It could have been a car hitting a pole or any other thing that caused it. I wasn't aware Cali was having rolling blackouts or EVER had them at night.

We're not and we didn't. LongCoolMother probably lives at the top of some windy mountain where trees always blow over onto power lines or something.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Millennium
It could have been a car hitting a pole or any other thing that caused it. I wasn't aware Cali was having rolling blackouts or EVER had them at night.

We're not and we didn't. LongCoolMother probably lives at the top of some windy mountain where trees always blow over onto power lines or something.

That is what I was thinking...