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[mom2four0418]

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

[eddyandme]

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@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. 

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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.

[Porcelain]

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.

[pitdakota]

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

[Krimpette]

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

[eddyandme]

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@Krimpette wrote:

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

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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.

[Kachina624]

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@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" 

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

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

@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.

[Spurt]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@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" 

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@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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@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.....

[Kachina624]

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