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OK, lets here the bragging rights. Who has been the longest with out power ever !!!
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Posted 2/19/2021 17:15 (#8845121 - in reply to #8843493)
Subject: RE: OK, lets here the bragging rights. Who has been the longest with out power ever !!!


New London, Wisconsin
1976, I was in college at Madison WI. The area took a terrible hit from a days long ice storm and most of the region went dark for two weeks. Dairy farms without generators were literally drying up cows they couldn't milk. Crews came from far and wide to clear trees, and set new poles and wire in a vast part of the area.

Then another ice storm came and hit again taking down a lot of the new stuff just weeks after it was put up. Between both storms some were out about a month total. It was the worst I have ever seen.

On campus there was a heating and generating plant so our dorms and class rooms never went out. Classes went on and professors must have slept at the offices because roads were impassable. We couldn't believe it, not even a day off to go sledding.

Jim
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