Why doesnt he go to the Patriot Center where there is enough seats for everyone?
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How many digits are availiable on the toll display? There's your answer. $99 or $999
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I would gladly pay a toll if they would remove all signalized intersections within 1 year of instituting the toll
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"A citizen reported at 5:33 p.m. June 29 that a man was filling a swimming pool from a Town of Vienna owned water hydrant at Echols Street and Wolftrap Road SE. Police responded and discovered the man, who was using a Fairfax County water meter, hadn't known he needed one from the town instead. The man stopped filling the pool and told police he would get the correct meter. " What kind of neighb
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"At press time, FCPS spokesman John Torre had not had time to review the complaint" Press Time? What the hell? AFAIK, Patch is a soley online news source. What deadline do they have to meet?
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Remember way back before the interchange of Rte 28/29 was built there was a Wendys on that corner. As well as BK and McDonalds. The BK and McDonalds relocated down the street, and I always thought Wendys relocated to Fast Food Central. Guess not. Perhaps they are overloading us a bit on Wendy's in this area. We have Wendy's on 28 in Manassas, at Fast Food Central, and two on Rte 50 in Chantilly.
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Arent towing companies required to have someone answer the phone/be at the office 24 hours a day?
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Looks like Obama is gonna make a speech at Centreville HS on Saturday evening, so best to avoid the whole area after 11 am or so, traffic is sure to be bad what with the motorcade tying up all the roads then the masses of people who will want to go see him. I will be sure to be out of the area all day so as to avoid all the trouble.
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No juice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Keep on trucking wrote > But I have NOVEC, a non profit cooperative that > cares about its customers, so my electricity is > unlikely to go out. > And if it does, I will hook up my window a/c to my > 2000 watt inverter and power it off of my car. You > can't put a price on comfort during a heat wave. &
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Verizon Guy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > justsayin Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Maybe this will be a wakeup call to all the > people > > who still have landlines only because they want > to > > have a reliable "works in emergencies" method > of > > communication. I don't knock
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Another Verizon Customer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The outage is at the Arlington CO. > > I don't understand though the delay in getting a > backup generator. We got a backup generator for > our building in less than a day when we realized > ours was failing. One of those big CAT portable > power stations. I agree- even if there was
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JohnGalt338 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lots of people bitch and moan about power > companies clearing trees near their lines and they > are probably the first to bitch and moan that > their power goes out due to falling trees. I > don't think anyone could have predicted the > ferocity of the storm but you can always predict > that whethe
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Love Them Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I love NOVEC. We live near Clifton, and in 20 > years I don't think we've ever had a power outage > that lasted more than a few hours - and those are > extremely rare. I also really like the fact that > they tell you when they expect power to be > restored. > > I don't understand how NOVEC can do i
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Yeah or they could just close the turn lane and put a sign saying go up to Westfields Blvd and go over the bridge and get back on going south. Then nobody has to wait at a light!
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Lester Burnham Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Speaking of generators, I drove by several cell > towers today and it sounds like they are running > generators which might be the reason why we are > getting so many "circuit busy" messages when > making a call. I don't know if every cell site has generators. I'm sure some do, but do all of the
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How much do you want to pay? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @OP: Fifty years ago this was not a county of one > million people who are all hooked up to the > internet, cell phones, etc. > > I heard one lady on TV say: "We are completely > isolated". Guess what? People lived in a > "completely isolated" fashion not too many years > ag
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Pantone661 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We live in Falls Church (Skyline). Our cable ce > back up this morning, but the Internet is still > out. No luck calling Cox. I just get the "all > circuits busy" recording (understandably). Does > anyone have an update? Anyone still without the > Internet? That recording is due to a Verizon telephone
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A CO is a central office. The big, windowless buildings that say Verizon on the side. Houses big telephone switches. Any idea which CO it was? I wonder if any of the localities whose 911 service was impacted can investigate and/or fine/sue Verizon for this. It seems like a no brainer to perform periodic generator maintenance to prevent this from happening. Any commercial data center would do th
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Thats right, the traffic light on 28 at E.C Lawrence soccer fields is out! The turn lanes are closed and the light is out. Everyone who has been inconvenienced by this light should go there immediatly and drive through it and appreciate what it could be like. Hopefully the light will still be out tomorrow so everyones commute on 28 south will be much less shitty.
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Jess1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "I'm a retired person that doesn't tweet, text or > all that other stuff" > > Yet amazingly you have power & internet access. Go > figure. > > PS - what sort of announcement should they be > making? "Hey, we know there's been this really > huge storm w/lots of trees and telephone poles > dow
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I had a cox internet and tv outage until 6 am this morning, I am just happy to have some internet connection at all
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Im sure they are working hard but since we can all connect to the network and or have a dial tone, that tells me this is a central office issue. This type of issue should be easier to prevent (its not an issue of trees taking down wires) and easier to recover from. Not having landline service is a huge issue, how are we supposed to call for help in an emergency? Also the fact that 911 centers do
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Anyone else not have landline phone service? I didnt have a dial tone until 5 pm, and still none of my calls will connect. I know 911 service is down, but i cant call any of the other utilities because my phone doesnt work. Also same thing on Verizon cell phone, none of my calls will connect. I have been texting everyone.
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I have electrical service capable of delivering 200 amps to my house. I can use all of this available capacity whenever I feel like it, assuming I pay the bill, which I do. My heat pump is on a 25 amp circuit, it is an energy efficient model. Delivering however many amps I am using is the problem of the power company. If my electricty goes out during this time of peak demand, I will send an angry
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I am running my a/c down to 60 now, that way i will have a head start on the heat wave tomorrow
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First we complain for years that the parkway never gets repaved. Then the status of the road changes and VDOT magically finds the money to repave the entire length of highway within 3 months of the change. (I have to wonder if they had or got obtain the money anyway and just kept holding it up) Now we complain that the repaving project is inconvenient. Anyway, I drive the parkway every day and
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I don't think it would be possible to connect this road into Rt 28 north of willard and south of rt 50. There is only about 1/4 mile between the two exit ramps and people already have trouble with the weave there. Additionally, as mentioned above, you have the Fairfax criminal justice academy and the Long and Foster castle in the way of your proposed route. Perhaps though a connection could be m
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Traffic is backed up on Braddock all the way to Colchester Rd. Avoid the area
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They let you use cell phones in school.
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