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Subject: [Leica] OT: Plane Crash
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:34:00 -0500
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> The plane crashed about a mile from my house. However, the plane crash cut
> off electricity to the entire city of Palo Alto for about 10 hours. My UPS
> ran out of battery after about 5 hours and then the LUG was off the air.
>
> Here's the official notice from the city utilities department:
>       
> http://cityofpaloalto.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=1502&TargetID=268
>
> Here's a BBC report on it:
>       http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8520875.stm
>
> Here's the San Francisco Chronicle news report on it all:
>       
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/17/BA391C32O5.DTL

Great to hear you are safe. I note the occupants were with electric car
makers: not popular in California, where if my memory serves big cars are
very much the loved alternative ;-)

Cheers

Alastair



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