[Old Professer]

Time of outage is irrelevant. It's 11 a.m. and you're working on an intense data recordation that took you weeks to gather and this is in preparation for a primary database to be backed up upon completion when BAM...no juice, no warning just darkness.

Or a "brownout" occurs frequently, you know, the kind that doesn't quite turn everything off completely, but does disrupt just enough power to turn off every clock, VCR and other toy that is power sensitive.

If you are going tobe doing this kind of work, you definitely need a UPS/CPS between your computer and the power source; a brownout is when a minimal amount of power is being delivered because no power loads have been shaved and voltage drops below 110-208AC; heats the crap out of everything as the amperage peaks.

[Vidalia]

Have for quite a while (that was just an example), but that is not the essence of the problem.

It is the fact that these unscheduled interruptions occur on a frequent basis and the true causes thereof aren't forthcoming from the service provider.

When in central Texas, our electric supply has endured torrential rains, temperatures that may range from 112 during the day to below freezing the next day, tornadoes and the ever fun ice storms, without the inconsistencies of supply found on the Big Island. Maybe an independent audit of the Hawaii Electric Company is in order for the not so distant future...