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Power Just Came Back On.

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:21:17 GMT

About 11:30ish everything went off. Our portable phones don't work without juice and we don't get cell service at the house.

How to report an outage? Well, you get dressed, get in the car and drive until you find a high spot where your cell will work and report it.

Back on but at least it is a nice day for a drive. There are branches down all over so I assume one was the culprit.

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Peaches McPhee — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:30:37 GMT

Do you really need to report an outage? I always assumed they knew.

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Mindy D — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:31:35 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
About 11:30ish everything went off. Our portable phones don't work without juice and we don't get cell service at the house.

How to report an outage? Well, you get dressed, get in the car and drive until you find a high spot where your cell will work and report it.

Back on but at least it is a nice day for a drive. There are branches down all over so I assume one was the culprit.

@CrazyKittyLvr2 @Good to own for storms. An AT & T corded phone. It costs around $12. Will not work if your wireless phones are internet phones that only work with an internet signal.. The corded phone only works for POTS (plain old land line) phone set up.

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proudlyfromNJ — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:34:46 GMT

@Peaches McPhee wrote:
Do you really need to report an outage? I always assumed they knew.

@Peaches McPhee Where I live you do. There is a number on the website to call to report an outage.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:45:47 GMT

@Peaches McPhee We have always reported outages. I've learned over the years here, never assume.

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Lali1 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:05:04 GMT

We're in a neighborhood and I believe if that's the case you don't need to report an outage. If you're on some property without many neighbors I would report. My husband insists we must report it everytime ours goes out and I I know they know. The computer system tells them when there's an outage.

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Krimpette — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:06:12 GMT

My power went out just the other night. I don't know when it went out because I was sound asleep. But, I woke up feeling cold. Looked at the clock to see the time and realized everything was dark. At that time, it was 1:15 AM (I looked at my watch.). Called to report the outage, but the recording said they were aware and anticipated restoration by 4AM. As it turned out, it came back on at 2:AM. I have no idea of the cause. I do know I was mildly annoyed, since I had to change the clocks, and will have to do so again Saturday night. Fortunately, the "spring forward: adjustments are much easier than the "fall back".

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QVCkitty1 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:29:35 GMT

@Krimpette wrote:
My power went out just the other night. I don't know when it went out because I was sound asleep. But, I woke up feeling cold. Looked at the clock to see the time and realized everything was dark. At that time, it was 1:15 AM (I looked at my watch.). Called to report the outage, but the recording said they were aware and anticipated restoration by 4AM. As it turned out, it came back on at 2:AM. I have no idea of the cause. I do know I was mildly annoyed, since I had to change the clocks, and will have to do so again Saturday night. Fortunately, the "spring forward: adjustments are much easier than the "fall back".

Around here they usually blame a squirrel. 🤣

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eddyandme — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:36:45 GMT

@QVCkitty1 wrote:

@Krimpette wrote:
My power went out just the other night. I don't know when it went out because I was sound asleep. But, I woke up feeling cold. Looked at the clock to see the time and realized everything was dark. At that time, it was 1:15 AM (I looked at my watch.). Called to report the outage, but the recording said they were aware and anticipated restoration by 4AM. As it turned out, it came back on at 2:AM. I have no idea of the cause. I do know I was mildly annoyed, since I had to change the clocks, and will have to do so again Saturday night. Fortunately, the "spring forward: adjustments are much easier than the "fall back".
Around here they usually blame a squirrel. 🤣

Call your electiric co and ask for Overhead Lines. Tell them to put up a squirrel guard on the transformer serving your crib. The local squirrels will be happy, too!

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Spurt — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:38:01 GMT

I always have enough battery power in my laptop to check the power outage map.....Usually the reason they give is "cause unknown"

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mom2four0418 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:38:33 GMT

Our electric company sends text messages to inform about outages, approximate time to resolve, and again when the power is restored.

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eddyandme — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:42:45 GMT

@Lali1 wrote:
We're in a neighborhood and I believe if that's the case you don't need to report an outage. If you're on some property without many neighbors I would report. My husband insists we must report it everytime ours goes out and I I know they know. The computer system tells them when there's an outage.

Your DH is right, @Lali1 . Major substations are alarmed when power is out, but that more often than not doesn't work. The best way is to report it and by customer service entering it into the computer, it helps the trouble center ascertain the problem asap. It's also good to call if you see a wire down, etc., but stay away from it - it may be alive.

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Porcelain — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:47:03 GMT

I always feel like reporting an outage makes them fix it faster. Maybe it just makes me feel better to have done something.

Howerver, around my area outages are rare and are generally only for a few minutes or seconds, so there's nothing to report. Even during this past cold snap, we were perfectly fine.

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pitdakota — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:52:52 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2, I am glad your power is back on.

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Krimpette — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:08:17 GMT

@eddyandme In my case, our power lines are underground in my development, but the feeder lines are not underground.

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eddyandme — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:24:33 GMT

@Krimpette wrote:
@eddyandme In my case, our power lines are underground in my development, but the feeder lines are not underground.

It's the OH xfmr that feeds into your urd. It probably was a mainline fuse blown 'cause urds have two feeds and if only in your urd they could have backfed.

I would have set my clocks to the daylight savings time. Still haven't set my clocks back, so I'll just leave them at the spring ahead; my way of dealing with the nuisance that they keep trying to change legislation on but always fail. So, I just have to remember my clocks are an hour ahead 'til Sunday.

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Kachina624 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:22:56 GMT

@Spurt wrote:
I always have enough battery power in my laptop to check the power outage map.....Usually the reason they give is "cause unknown"

@Spurt What did it say last month when most of the state was out? That map must've lit up like a Christmas tree.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:31:37 GMT

@pitdakota Thanks. I always feel very bad for people who lose power during bad weather and for days and weeks at at time.

I think the longest we ever lost power was 15 or 16 hours.

We lose it frequently. The electric company does not keep the trees cut back and the falling branches or the trees themselves take the lines down.

I know one thing, I would have made a lousy pioneer. I want running water and a flushing toilet.

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Spurt — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:39:25 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Spurt wrote:
I always have enough battery power in my laptop to check the power outage map.....Usually the reason they give is "cause unknown"

@Spurt What did it say last month when most of the state was out? That map must've lit up like a Christmas tree.

@Kachina624

They took the normal city outage map down and just had a message regarding rolling outages were in place due to the storm. As areas slowly came back on then they showed a map where the outages were and didnt give a time frame when they would be back on..

Whats sad a friend lives in a rural area in the Texas Hill Country....she finally got electric power last week, BUT she's still without water.....and she has lots of animals that need water too---horses, chickens, barn cats and her 2 dogs.....

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Kachina624 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 23:02:39 GMT

@Spurt Wow, that's a lot of water to have to haul.