Servicing Industrial Power Supplies
Visiting Miami reminds me of the time we spent here during and after Hurrican Wilma. The storm came nowhere close to the violence of Hurricane Dean's category 5 pass over my house in Bacalar. It did not destroy Miami as Dean did to the village of Bacalar and the damage done to the growing city of Chetumal.
However, it did disrupt the modern, American city of Miami and environs. Power was cut, power poles leveled by the hundreds, streets were blocked and gas stations were unable to pump gas. For a modern city in the developed and industrial world, it was a telling situation that warned us of the fragility of the contemporary infrastructure of a modern city. It is anything but hardened. Miami, after all, wasn't the corrupt and ignored New Orleans written off by the government. It was merely a small blow and a big shot of damage.
Back in Mexico after Hurricane Dean I had my generator ready to be plugged into the electrical system of the house (and that system isolated from the public grid). It was noisy and hard to get running since I had not properly exercised the machine regularly and gas supplies and lines were dirty. But it worked. It pumped water, made light, ran my computer and even ran the refrigerator. Luckily vegetarians are not so dependent on the refrigerator since little will go bad if it is not refrigerated.
For businesses the need is great for quick and sure access to power supply repair not only for the stuff of private home needs but for the far more important needs of medical facilities and laboratories, food processing, manufacturing, oil drilling, communication systems and defense needs.
Keeping the machinery going and being able to access immediate repairs and supplies for the emergency back-up equipment is right up there with "job one".
However, it did disrupt the modern, American city of Miami and environs. Power was cut, power poles leveled by the hundreds, streets were blocked and gas stations were unable to pump gas. For a modern city in the developed and industrial world, it was a telling situation that warned us of the fragility of the contemporary infrastructure of a modern city. It is anything but hardened. Miami, after all, wasn't the corrupt and ignored New Orleans written off by the government. It was merely a small blow and a big shot of damage.
Back in Mexico after Hurricane Dean I had my generator ready to be plugged into the electrical system of the house (and that system isolated from the public grid). It was noisy and hard to get running since I had not properly exercised the machine regularly and gas supplies and lines were dirty. But it worked. It pumped water, made light, ran my computer and even ran the refrigerator. Luckily vegetarians are not so dependent on the refrigerator since little will go bad if it is not refrigerated.
For businesses the need is great for quick and sure access to power supply repair not only for the stuff of private home needs but for the far more important needs of medical facilities and laboratories, food processing, manufacturing, oil drilling, communication systems and defense needs.
Keeping the machinery going and being able to access immediate repairs and supplies for the emergency back-up equipment is right up there with "job one".
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