[EAS] Rochester Station Offers to Charge Cell Phones

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

" delay because there was no local 120 volt power available to throw the switch."

Funny.  Back in the mid-80s a Silicon Valley city opened one of the last bomb-shelter-era EOCs... all underground, decontamination shower at the bottom of the access ramp, air filters, the works.  Remote door actuator on the ground-level door... during the commissioning exercise, they switched to generator and discovered that the door didn't work on generator power.

That was embarrassing, but after an hour or so the generator faltered and died.  Turned out the pump that brought fuel from the main tank outside to the generator's "day tank" on top of the genset wasn't wired for emergency power either!

Maybe I just have bad karma in that regard, but few classes of devices have broken my heart as consistently as generators.  Glad to hear that hasn't been everyone's experience.

Art (too many accumulated war stories)