HI Andy and all,

Many modern repeaters do have emergency power provisions, and occasionally
you hear of one in a remote mountaintop location with no easy access to
power that has solar/battery power sources.  Of course ten to 20 inches of
rain in a day or less can knock out a lot of electronics, even with
emergency backups if much of that water finds its way into the enclosures.

73,

Will, K4SAY
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Andy Baracco wrote:

> Well, so much for ham radio.  That surely points to the downfall of modern
> technology.  Lose power, lose repeaters, lose communication.
>
> Andy  WQ6R
>
> At 03:55 AM 9/27/02 +600, you wrote:
> >Well, we all weathered the storm all right.  I was without power
> >for about 17 hours from a quarter to 7 Wednesday night till about
> >1 P.M> yesterday afternoon.  The strange thing about that was that
> >at the time power went out in my neighborhood there was nothing
> >going on.  It was steadily raining, but there was no wind activity
> >nor were their any tree limbs down that I know of, and this was
> >confirmed by one of my neighbors who called a local radio talk
> >show.
> >
> >anyway, I went to a friend's house who didn't loose power and
> >stayed there for about 9 hours, but I am back home now.  So other
> >than some time without power I didn't receive any flood damage.
> >There was no water in my apartment although the street was flooded
> >for a time and I didn't loose any property.
> >
> >I did not participate in any ham related activity this time, and I
> >don't even know if there was any in my area as some of the
> >repeaters went down.  But that's the story from New Orleans.
> >
> >Harvey
> >"evil people prosper because good people do nothing."
> >
> >
>