Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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