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Fog or no fog, a broken foghorn wails on
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| 2-9-06
| upi
Posted on 02/09/2006 3:15:12 PM PST by Rakkasan1
MONTEREY, Calif., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- There may be no fog and it's the middle of the day, but Monterey's broken foghorn wails away -- around the clock because its switch is stuck "on." Its switch is stuck and nobody locally can fix it, said Boatswain Mate First Class Lance Benedict of the Coast Guard. The guard's repair unit, based in San Francisco, has been alerted. The foghorn is at the end of the Coast Guard Pier off Lighthouse Avenue to prevent water travelers from running into the breakwall, Benedict said. When conditions were foggy a couple of nights ago, the horn was turned on. But now it won't go off. Some residents are getting mighty tired of that repetitive drone, the Monterey County (Calif.) Herald said.
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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: coast; fog; foghorn; guard; horn; leghorn
how hard is it to cut the power off to the horn with a pair of wire cutters? geez.improvising is a lost art.
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:15:13 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
To: Rakkasan1
how hard is it to cut the power off to the horn with a pair of wire cutters? I imagine after two days of listening to a foghorn that locals are ready to turn off the power with a D-8 Cat.
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:16:28 PM PST
by
dirtboy
(I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)
To: Rakkasan1
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:16:33 PM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: Rakkasan1
They don't want to go there because of the dangerous fog, silly.
To: Rakkasan1
Damned fog people and their shenanigans...
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:18:53 PM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
To: Rakkasan1
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:18:57 PM PST
by
jwalburg
(If I have not seen as far as others, it is because of the giants standing on my shoulders.)
To: jwalburg
Actually I was thinking about Ted Kennedy, but we're on the same wavelength...
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:21:06 PM PST
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: GOP_Party_Animal
The guard's repair unit, based in San Francisco, has been alerted. I have a funny mental picture of that repair unit.
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:22:01 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Muslims pray to Allah, Allah prays to Chuck Norris.)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: Rakkasan1
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:27:34 PM PST
by
aomagrat
(I am not sitting. I am on a journey.)
To: jwalburg
Now that's weird, what is it?
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:27:49 PM PST
by
BARLF
To: jwalburg
"stuck on" == "stuck on stupid"? nah that's pretty oblique, yah you gotta clarify this for me too old sport
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posted on
02/09/2006 3:55:14 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Rakkasan1
Did someone call?
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posted on
02/09/2006 4:34:59 PM PST
by
fuquadukie
(If you can't hang with the big dogs, then don't jump off the porch.)
To: Rakkasan1
with a pair of wire cutters?Wires are probably too think. Use a fire axe.
Shoot, you know the thing has a fuse or a circuit breaker. How stupid are Coast Guards officers these days.
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posted on
02/09/2006 4:45:23 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: Rakkasan1
how hard is it to cut the power off to the horn with a pair of wire cutters? geez.improvising is a lost art. How does the foghorn work? Does it use an electric blower to drive a self-resonating flue pipe, or does it use an electrically driven vibrator, or does it combine a blower and a vibrator (using the moving air for mechanical amplification), or does it use an oversized siren blower, or what?
If the thing uses a blower and a flue pipe, sticking something in the mouth could stop it from resonating while allowing for an easy restart (just remove the item in question). If it uses an electrically-driven vibrator along with a blower, the vibrator wouldn't need a huge amount of current and so it might be interrupted fairly easily.
And if all else fails, stop paying the electric bill.
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posted on
02/09/2006 6:19:29 PM PST
by
supercat
(Sony delenda est.)
To: jiggyboy; BARLF
I thought it was Harry Reid.
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posted on
02/09/2006 6:59:45 PM PST
by
jwalburg
(If I have not seen as far as others, it is because of the giants standing on my shoulders.)
To: jwalburg
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posted on
02/09/2006 8:33:17 PM PST
by
BARLF
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