If you checked out the Small Town America: Central Minnesota webcam Tuesday evening, or really early Wednesday morning, you might have noticed something wrong with the picture.
Here's what happened:
The webcam sends its signal through the same service that provides our telephone and cable television: economical, and most of the time highly satisfactory.
Earlier this week, not so much.
Here's the sequence of events, as I've pieced it together. All times are approximate:
- Tuesday, December 2, 2008
- 6 p.m.
Internet service lost - 7 p.m.
Internet service restored - Midnight
Internet service lost
Telephone service lost
Cable service lost
- 6 p.m.
- Wednesday, December 3, 2008
- 5:50 a.m.
Internet service still out
Telephone service restored
Cable service still out - Between 5:50 a.m. and 9 a.m.
Internet service restored - Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.
Cable service restored
- 5:50 a.m.
I was working on something when we lost connection to the Internet - which is another story.
The point here is that, while we were cut off from the rest of the world, this webcam was, too.
Sorry about that, but things seem to be working now. In fact, the connection is working more efficiently than it has for several days.
About the times I listed up there:
I live pretty close to the middle of North America, in Minnesota. All times are Central time, USA style.
Minnesota time is UTC/GMT -6 hours, which means that our clocks are six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. That's not taking Daylight Saving Time into account.
This year, Daylight Saving Time started March 9, 2008 at 2:00 AM local standard time and ended November 2, 2008 at 2:00 AM local daylight time. What the Capitol Hill bunch will decide we have to do next year, I don't know.
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