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1. I was lucky in Golden Valley - just a fraction-of-a-second loss of power, but enough to knock my computer

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Sun Jul 14, 2024, 02:17 PM

Jul 2024

offline, which is always a pain because it takes me about 20 minutes of effort to get things back to where they were. This time it also ran something to do a disk repair of the c: drive, a scary thing to contemplate, but it went well AFAIK.

Finally got a good incentive to maybe hook up the UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) that I got last year and that's sitting in a box because so many other things to do.

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Storms, baseball-sized hail leave trail of damage across Minnesota [View all] question everything Jul 2024 OP

I was lucky in Golden Valley - just a fraction-of-a-second loss of power, but enough to knock my computer progree Jul 2024 #1

Would that be considered a derecho? rurallib Jul 2024 #2

Probably. We have had several earlier this season. question everything Jul 2024 #4

It was a doozy - lots of large tree branches down in my neighborhood. Ocelot II Jul 2024 #3