At 07:49 AM 8/15/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:

There wasn't much of traffic congestion on the manhatten roads when they showed the images on bbc. The manhatten road network is used in examples of deflection routing. Also roads every where should be like that :-)

Mutually perpendicular, you mean? Or congested?

In India during summer-we have around 8 hours of power cut daily.

Think of the market for UPSes, man! Or for a thermoelectric generator that runs on cowdung!

For a moment think of all the iraqi's with power grids taken out now enjoying the 120+ farenhiet sun. A few hours of luxury was gone and it was breaking news in bbc.

Yeah but the traditional Arab dress deals with the sun, whereas the traditional Victorian/American attire doesn't. The *real story* is how this is a symptom of the Empire Declining. For Californians, its more of a "its your turn now" feeling... IIRC New Zealand had a city w/out watts for a few days, a few years ago. .... "Flex your power" Flush Davis