Another GREAT by Roots web Fred 2:33AM 2/4/98 -----Original Message----- From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 2:15 AM Subject: We Have a Generator! (Was: Re: Power Failure ... ) > > >-- Your message was: (from "Brian Leverich") > >> I'm about to try 4-wheel driving it out to Bakersfield or Los >> Angeles to buy a generator. Thanks to the folks who are doing a >> little impromptu fund-raising, and wish me luck with the drive ... >> -B > > ------------------ > > >I made it off The Hill and bought a generator, and it's now >installed at our PMC network operations center. > >[ The trip was kinda exciting, including some of that impromptu > tail-before-hood driving that veteran winter drivers find intensely > embarrassing. But I didn't mind up in any snowbanks I couldn't > get myself out of ... (: ] > >For those who have been wondering *where* Pine Mountain Club is, >it's suburban Frazier Park (if you call a microscopic town twenty >miles west of a tiny town a "suburb" (: ). Perhaps more usefully, >PMC is about 90 miles north and more than a mile above Los Angeles. >The climate up here is almost always breathtakingly wonderful, but >every once in the while we have a really interesting winter storm. > >Like right now. > >As it happens, SoCal Edison has been doing their usual outstanding >job of maintaining their power grid (these folks really are one of >the best utilities in America) and they have people climbing all >over the mountain right now. > >Between their efforts, our batteries, and the new generator, we've >had only about 5 minutes of downtime on our nameserver while we cut >in the generator and about 60 minutes of downtime on our secondary >mailserver as we let it clean out its queues before the power >cutover. We've had -0- down time on our routers, the Web server, >the search engine server, and the main list server. > >We anticipate no further downs exceeding five minutes for the >duration of the storm. > >The new generator isn't exactly a panacea -- the best I could come >up with is a (relatively) little gasoline generator, so one of us >has to sleep down at the NOC and feed the thing periodically. We'll >be saving up towards buying an autostarting propane generator, and >the folks who share the NOC (RootsWeb, Frazier Mountain Internet >Service, ICA, and Earthlink) intend to get the commercial-grade >generator installed before the next winter season. > >I'm going to catch a few ZZZs now in case I wind up having to stand >a shift on the generator. My apologies to everyone; for the obvious >reasons, we haven't made much progress for the last couple of days >(and probably won't for a bit yet) on new accounts and the other >chores. > >Anyway, we didn't go down and now, with the generator, we won't. > >Have fun using RootsWeb, B. > > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ Fred Kunchick GSCS[SW] USN Retired Pennsauken NJ kunchick@bellatlantic.net FredKun@aol.com Editor of The Northern KIMBALL On-Line Newsletter Member: NEHGS Camden County (NJ) Historical Society Lo/Lathrop Family Association Kimball Family Association Towne Family Association Home Page: URL: http://members.aol.com/FredKun/index.html Coos County, NH USGenWeb County Coordinator. URL: http://members.aol.com/fredkunch/coos.htm Hillsboro County, NH USGenWeb County Coordinator: URL: http://members.aol.com/fredkun1/hillsboro.htm Nantucket County, MA USGenWeb County Coordinator: URL: http://members.aol.com/fredkunc/nantuckt.htm Andover, MA USGenWeb Coordinator URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/6351/index.htm ICQ# 2000494 ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________