Summer Weather 2021

D.B. Cooper said:
It's a basically a battery that plugs into the wall. You plug devices into the battery. Mine has surge protection for coaxial (T.V. type cable) also.

When the power goes out, whatever is plugged in keeps working. Your internet signal should keep working, just as your phone works when the power is out. You can plug your phone charger into the UPS when the power is out.

Some UPSs have software that, when the power goes out, will perform an orderly shutdown of your computer. This isn't needed as much with a laptop with a reasonable charge left, but will allow your laptop to last longer if it's plugged in to the UPS.

Vendors' web sites have calculators, etc. so you can predict how long the UPS battery will last (based on the power draw of what you want to plug in). You could also roughly figure out how long something will last based on the power draw as found in a device's manual.

UPSs can go from <$100 to probably tens of thousands if you run a data center (rows and rows of servers, routers, etc.).
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Very interesting. Thanks!
 
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tirolski said:
Our climate changes always every year since we started wobbling back and forth while spinning on the axis on our annual voyage around the sun.
When the last ice age was here ~10K years ago there wasn’t much life around at all while being under 1/2 mile of ice.
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Weather refers to short term atmospheric conditions while climate is the weather of a specific region averaged over a long period of time. Climate change refers to long-term changes.
 
Holy crap @Robert what can you tell us?
 
So people I've talked to actually think the tornado started behind woods and came down the mountain towards the town. Luckily no major structural damage at WV. They lost roofing and siding on their utility shed and there was some damage to the chair lift huts. Their main lodge is in the process of being renovated but luckily only the foundation had been poured.

I work with a few people from Westernville and it was pretty bad. If you avoided the trees you were fine, but the they came down on a lot of peoples property.

Also heard a story that someone was at the gas station down the road when the tornado hit, and the guy was holding on to the pump for dear life.....
 
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