canadianspankee:
Canucks know what a good snowstorm etc can do.
Last time I checked, this wasn't a snowstorm.
canadianspankee:
that is not what they are saying up here
And "they" would know, wouldn't they?
They's do some quick math. let's say 10% of all electric customers were to lose power in the impacted area (Maryland, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Long island and a bit of upstate NY, connecticut, Rhode Island and part of Massachusetts. How many active LSF members so we have in that area? 20? 30? 40? 50? Let's say 50 - so that maybe 5 of them would lose power. 60-80% of people without power will get it back within 2 days, because the crews focus first on the highest-impact repairs, and the easiest. With the storm passing through by my mid-day Tuesday, by mid-day on on Thursday the 1st (first day of voting) we could expect 3 or 4 of our 5 members active without power to have their electricity restored. by the weekend, there would probably be no more than one without power. The chances of him;/her being one of the unfortunate few who go more than a week without power is unlikely. You'd have a similar pattern with phone service - with a high correlation among the people affected, since the phone/cable lines run on the same poles, and are often taken out by the same fallen trees. then there will be a much smaller group of people evacuated from shore areas, and/or flooded out.
So if you have a couple people who miss a couple days of reading/voting, and at most one r two who miss a week, that's not much of an impact. And I believe all of teh numbers will be smaller - less than 10% who lose power/phones, closer to 20% rather than 40% of those who are without service 2 days later, and fewr than 50 active LSF members in the affected area.
Will there be hundreds of thousands of people altogether who lose power? probably. Will there be thousands or even tens of thousands who are without power a week later, and tens of thousands flooded out? Yes And will this be a hardship for all of them? Absolutely! And are there a fair number of LSF members who are AT RISK at being among them. Yes. The chances of that actually happen to any of us, however, are quite small - despite the fact that it's likely to happen to LOTS of people.
I guarantee you that with every contest there will be as many people, among all LSF members who have equally big hurdles to reading/voting - computer problems, power or internet problems that keep them offline, deaths in the family, health issues, other personal issues, workload on the job, travel plans, etc.
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