Power Outages

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Moved in here in 2013. Bought propane tanks and burners/heater. Bottles of propane still have the shrink-wrap. Nice to be in the burbs.

[ignoramus]

We had a brief (about an hour) outage here Friday.  Some lackwit drove a lorry into a power pole.  Other than that, hardly ever.

Boru

We had record heat a couple of weeks ago.
All our outages have been planned outages .... so we won't have to endure actual outages? Wow, I feel so much better knowing that our outages are intentional!

[onlinebiker]

I dunno if you could call it intentional --- but ----



I have a big dead ash tree next to the power lines. It' s West of the lines - and odds are when it falls it will take out the lines. Odds are, that will happen during a storm - when other tree's will also fall on the lines.

I called the power company. Showed them the tree. ( they sent 3 guys).Asked them to simply cut the tree down - and I would clean it up. They don't cut trees down. Only take them off downed lines.

In other words - preventive maintenance isn't in their lexicon.

But, they'll send three guys in a truck to tell you that.




Edit to add - and if I cut the tree down - and it falls on the line - they charge me for fixing the lines. They don't charge me if the tree falls on it' s own.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"They don't charge me if the tree falls on it' s own."

Well then! :plot:

[Dr H]

Doesn't happen too often around here -- I can remember maybe three times in the past 15 years.  One was a squirrel across the transformer terminals; one was when they shut off the power to switch our street lights from halogen to LED (which they decided they needed to do at night,  for some reason); and the other was two years ago when a big ice storm took down a bunch of lines.

The last one was the worst -- three days without power; temperature in the teens (unusual around here); and repair crews braving icy roads, fallen trees, and idiot sight-seers, while trying to pick up and splice live lines all over the county.

Fortunately the house is well-insulated, and I was well stocked with food and single-malt antifreeze.

[Marozz]

Now and again the power goes in our neighborhood. What irritates me most is the noise. For some reason a lot of the house burglar alarms are activated when the power goes.