bpath while the card may not last past the death the debt does. I too have never seen where a representative was needed for SS unless she is meaning a Conservator. That was one of the things that I thought odd as SS when I notified them that my husband was declared incompetent and his money needed to go into a conservatorship account they were willing to accept a POA or my documents. If your parents are competent you only need one POA for financial rather than several permissions. If you go to church or belong to any groups ask if there is a notary among the group. If there is ask if they would be willing to go to your parents to notarize their signatures. You should have POA's from both which include both financial and medical. When my husband died in January the funeral home that handled arrangements here offered for $99 to contact a company that notifies the credit bureaus that he had died. From there the information went to any place that he had an account. My attorney had told me that until the Conservatorship was closed I should leave his bank account open. Bank of America put a hold on his account. It did post his final pension check but would not accept the refund check from his nursing home so I had to deposit it into my own account as it was only good for 90 days. The notification and apparently a type of insurance that would cover any possible fraud sounded good but in retrospect it caused problems. Funeral homes do notify SS of deaths so you do not need to do that but should follow up with them when one or the other passes so that the other can receive the highest amount. There is a form on the SS site that you can complete that will tell you the documents needed for spousal benefits. The things that you will need are their marriage license/certificate and their birth corticates so if you do not have a copy you will need to obtain it.

Annie, overhead power lines for long distance transmission can be close to 700,000 volts or higher. At this voltage, wires don't need to touch, a spark can jump over a big (23 cm?) air gap, If buried underground, everything must be 100% leak-proof and ultra insulated. 99.999 % is not acceptable. A tiniest pinhole can create an underground explosion. Also, because the power is alternating current (A/C) it can induce (as in induction cook tops) electric current in metal objects nearby. So metal conduits can be a problem. I can't imagine any way to bury this kind of power in mountain and forest areas for over 60000 miles of wire.. Many other areas near population will be a problem because of people's concern about magnetic field possibly causing cancer. So you will have 10 years to deal with "not in my backyard" law suits. Another 20 years for Environmental Impact Statements. 10 years for engineering? 20 years for construction? It takes hours to repair failed overhead power lines. It can take more than months to repair underground ultra high voltage transmission facilities. Not even going to compare costs, it takes a few months to add more power to overhead transmission system. It will take forever for an underground system to add capacity. --------------------------- I am surprised that the following has not been considered now that forest fire has become a worldwide problem: 1. Satellite IR sensor can easily be an added feature to GPS satellites to pinpoint fire the very second it occurs and allowing aerial fire fighting to take place in minutes. 2. Pre-mapped by GPS, access and escape paths based on contour and field conditions survey in all effected areas to allow safe and quick firefighting. 3. Fully insulated auto-pilot controlled rescue vehicles, with builtin air and medical supplies to get deep inside a fire and stay for at least 10 hours. May be modified surplus army tanks? 4. New building Code for buildings in fire areas. dcarch

What happens if you reset the range by turning off the range circuit's circuit breaker, waiting, say, 30 minutes and turning then circuit breaker back on?

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