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05-08-2020, 05:02 AM #11
This is almost our exact situation. Even though I’m still going to work full time, she’s working from home but it has provided us more time together. The kids actually like each other and work together as well. My wife is a teacher so there’s still a schedule and school going on in our house. One thing that hasn’t changed much is, we live in a small town and the restaurants here aren’t very good so we always cook at home anyway. Of course some ingredients have been impossible to find since this all started. I had applied for some jobs out of state in early February and I feel I have a good shot at them. I have in person interviews with these companies waiting for the virus to ease up. Had this virus not come along, I would probably be a state or several away from my family right now but since everything is on hold, we’re still all together. That’s been a blessing in disguise. Finally, our dog also feels this is the best thing to come along. He hasn’t been alone in months because of it.
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05-08-2020, 06:45 AM #12
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A a retired salesman I agree that american ingenuity will figure out how to work within these confines. Some businesses will prosper and some will die. Walmart replaced Sears
and someday something like Amazon will do the same to Walmart. The industry I worry about the most is Airlines. Video conferencing is replacing my old 5 days on planes
for things like a lunch with an important customer. All that travel also cost me a marriage, which in hindsight was my fault.
This is a well timed thread.
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05-08-2020, 06:51 AM #13
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I'm noticing the road traffic pick up at rush hour these past few days. It was peaceful while it lasted, sometimes eerily so. I also like going out and being able to see the night sky filled with stars again as the air has cleared. I can't see the Milky Way but I can pick out the star configurations again.
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05-08-2020, 07:20 AM #14
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Seeing the stars is a big plus, it's amazing with less flights how much clearer the skies have become. Bluer durng the day as well.
Along with that is less noise as planes pass over head.
Almost reminds me of when the eastern half of the US lost power for a bit of time (that was a long time ago!) .
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05-08-2020, 08:41 AM #15
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I remember, although I was only 10...it was '65. A substation that was overloaded in Ontario blow up and took down the NY / New England grid. Cromby Station, a power plant not far from me is where it ended when a generator arced over on the overload. If that hadn't happened it would have taken out Eastern Pa., Maryland and Delaware too. My Dad was called into work on emergency and we didn't see him for two weeks. Years later when I was an apprentice I was working at that plant with Dad and he told me all about it! Bonding
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05-08-2020, 02:09 PM #16
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The blackout I'm referring to was later than the 60s it was 2003 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
in 65 I want even 10 :
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05-08-2020, 05:33 PM #17
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The industry I worry about the most is Airlines. Video conferencing is replacing my old 5 days on planes
for things like a lunch with an important customer. All that travel also cost me a marriage, which in hindsight was my fault.
Hotels.. Well, a lot more pity here, all the major brands have been good to me, so I do feel bad for them. Airbnb type arrangements, IMHO, are going to be much more popular, rather be in a single family home with some space than a hotel with 100 people on one floor.
Restaurants are another one where I feel badly, lots of small businesses there, and, that another one.. Will it ever come back? Or come back without a vaccine (which we have no idea if we can even create, let alone when). That's a sad one to me.
Travel for work, IMHO, has been forever (or at least the rest of my working life) changed. I may never again do a coast to coast flight for lunch. Which would be just fine by me, it didn't cost me a marriage, but the time I've lost in airports.. It's gone, never to return. And I honestly hope that it never comes back the way that it was, it was ridiculous, and perhaps now we're all starting to realize that.
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05-08-2020, 09:58 PM #18
I’ve heard about that outage a few times but I learned about it and specific events around it again this week during some NERC virtual training. Crazy stuff.
I was 23 at that time. My wife (girlfriend at the time) and I were in Nashville when that happened. Even though it was largely in the NE, some places in Nashville had power and some didn’t. Never would have guessed then that I would be in the power generation industry.2020 Grand Design Imagine 2400BH
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05-09-2020, 06:20 AM #19
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I think regardless of who owns it, a lot will not survive. The entire model is broken by this event, packing 100's-1000's of people into an ultra-dense building is just insanity. That's why things like AirBNB seem to be a better bet to me, MUCH less exposure to others. Yes, I'm sure hotels will sanitize everything to within one cup of bleach from it's life, but that's not the real problem, it's the 15 people your packed on an elevator with that's the issue. I just don't see how they continue to function in this type of environment, the thing that their business is predicated on (density) is the exact thing that fuels the spread of the virus.
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