Date:         Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:48:16 -0400
Reply-To:     Tom Carrington <tcarrington@TERPSYS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Carrington <tcarrington@TERPSYS.COM>
Subject:      Status of the Vanagon List
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Sorry about that last post - the web-based e-mail server mangled it!

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that the Washington, DC area has been hit by
heavy
thunderstorms for the past few afternoons, and several hundered thousand
customers have been without power. Unfortunately, I was one of them for
about
26 of the last 48 hours...the power comes and goes. :(

Gerry and his associated equipment can run about 25 minutes on battery
before
the autoshutdown happens. Everything comes back up automatically once
the
batteries get recharged.

According to the taking heads near here, the severe weather pattern is
over for
now.

Oh, if you need to get in touch with me in the next 2 days use the
tcarrington@terpsys.com address. The Relitech e-mail server took a hit,
and it
will be down until I have time to fix it this weekend.

Thanks,
TomC