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The gift of...electricity!
KLorelei
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Just like that cheesy 80's song says - "you don't know what you've got, 'til it's gone". I never realized just how technologically addicted I am, just how power reliant I am, until I was without it for an extended period of time. At 5:42 am on Sunday November 13th, we lost power. You might think since this is November, it was due to a massive storm or something, but no, just "equipment failure". At first of course, it didn't seem to be that big of a deal, how could it be? It was a balmy 69-70 degree day, no inclement weather, no downed power lines, what on earth could prevent power from being restored within a reasonable amount of time?
Well since it was a Sunday, and a Sunday of a Holiday weekend (Veteran's Day), the power company didn't even bother to send anyone out to start work until a full 18 hours after the outage. Yes, you read that right. 18 hours. The trucks never showed until after midnight. I know, absolutely ridiculous. I'd say even atrocious really. Then of course because in our suburb all the power lines are required to be underground, they couldn't really start work until the following morning at 7 am (noise ordinance laws) since they'd have to jackhammer/drill. And you can guess from there that once they really started to get to work Monday morning, the problem wasn't nearly as simple as they thought, so it took them much longer than expected, etc. Power was not restored until 8:45 Monday evening, a full 38 hours after the initial outage.
So now I have a fridge full of spoiled food and I have the task of throwing out and restocking $500+ worth of it today, the joy. Although I suppose on the plus side it makes my seasonal task of cleaning it out that much easier. :P I also have piles of laundry to catch up on and other misc. chores that I've been unable to do. Totally caught up on a bunch of reading though. heh
So how did everyone else's weekend end up?
Well since it was a Sunday, and a Sunday of a Holiday weekend (Veteran's Day), the power company didn't even bother to send anyone out to start work until a full 18 hours after the outage. Yes, you read that right. 18 hours. The trucks never showed until after midnight. I know, absolutely ridiculous. I'd say even atrocious really. Then of course because in our suburb all the power lines are required to be underground, they couldn't really start work until the following morning at 7 am (noise ordinance laws) since they'd have to jackhammer/drill. And you can guess from there that once they really started to get to work Monday morning, the problem wasn't nearly as simple as they thought, so it took them much longer than expected, etc. Power was not restored until 8:45 Monday evening, a full 38 hours after the initial outage.
So now I have a fridge full of spoiled food and I have the task of throwing out and restocking $500+ worth of it today, the joy. Although I suppose on the plus side it makes my seasonal task of cleaning it out that much easier. :P I also have piles of laundry to catch up on and other misc. chores that I've been unable to do. Totally caught up on a bunch of reading though. heh
So how did everyone else's weekend end up?
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K, I was going to go on about how I used all my electrical appliances LOL, but I'll just say mine was a tad better than yours?
I'm glad that's over for ya! (well....mostly)..do they not take any responsibility for the loss? I really don't know..I've never heard of letting a customer wait like that.
I know my husband will dispatch someone from anywhere to go down into a manhole (or anywhere he needs them to go) at ANY hour to fix a phone line in his job if he needs to.
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I'm sorry hon. *Crossing fingers* that something better is on the horizon for you. Glad you finished your coursework though, that's always a good feeling!
Ooh, Klb, sounds like you can commiserate, although you had to deal with it much longer. My phone is on it's last legs too, it won't hold a charge and dies after about 2 texts. But I'm waiting for the Nexus prime to come out on the 17th, so I haven't bought a new one yet. As you said having no electronics is rough! And yesterday was especially tough when hubs was at work and I was at home w/just the dogs and no phone! Normally I enjoy it when I get to read all day and don't have anything else I have to do...but when I have nothing else I can do, it's a whole different story. lolz
Wishing all of you brighter days!
You'd think, right? Their customer service people weren't very bright either, pretty much admitted that well, since only a few people ("oh, it's less than 500 in your area") were affected, they weren't busting their you-know-whats to get things done. :roll: That's what comes of a monopoly. What else are we going to do? We wanted to install solar panels, but the HOA doesn't want those "unsightly" things on our roofs. *sigh*
As for responsibility, supposedly, we can submit receipts for the grocery purchases and will be reimbursed, which may work for a lot of the stuff in the fridge, but the stuff in the freezer will be much harder to track down. *another sigh*
I know right? We have an instant hot water tap (totally spoiled). But guess what...it's heated by...electricity. And since the power went out at 5:45, it was stone cold by the time we got up. So yeah, no dice. Not even for french press. I joked that if it went on another day we should "try out" a gym just to use the hair dryers. heh
*giant group hug*
It does feel like such a waste. And oh, the stink! peee-yeeewwww!
Glad your back! :P
Welcome back!
HOA's are so horrible. My husband and I have been doing tentative house searching in our area and while a condo would be the much more cost effective route to go in town I refuse to be held to their strict rules. I absolutely will not purchase a home under HOA ordinance. (Especially because I like solar panels, and have no desire to measure how tall my grass is).
Does your homeowner's insurance cover food spoilage due to power outage? Granted, your deductible may not make it worth it, but it might be worth looking into? Back during Irene my parents were without power for 8 days and their insurance would have covered I think $250 per refrigerator (including chest/upright freezers).
Anyway, all that aside, I'm glad the reason wasn't because of storms/accidents and no one got hurt. And that it got fixed.
First a little boring warning: Symguruhydra has a new sticky in the GF that chats should be sims related or threads will be (maybe im guessing) deleted. So let me start out be telling you about my latest Sims games (that i can only run with power
My game has come op with this fun game in the game; after i have been builded on something or worked to create a household for an hour, 2 or 3, it just quit in a split second and i loose everything
Becciburt im sorry about your job. I hope you fiend a new when you want to, or really can use it to focus on your studies in the best possible way.
Klorelei it sounds like a horrible long time to be without power! - And coffeee!!! klb sorry you had that experience too. - I can relay as well... unfortunately
When i lived in Africa, power wasn't exactly the most reliable recourse (as so many other things). It would go all the sudden, and it was not really an option to call anyone and ask about it
So yes, I know how difficult it is to be without power, and its no fun! Im happy you finally got it back!
Enjoy your coffee and computer and light and washing machine and everything else again
*HUGS*
I'm sorry you lost your job!
All and all, we learn to be thankful for so many things we don't realize we have to be thankful for! I am glad your situation was straightened out and you are able to get back to your sims games! It can be hard not being able to get back to them... especially if your playing when the power goes out, which is usually what happens to me when I haven't saved for a while :roll:
(and to keep this sims related) This has been a good weekend, I have been building a home for a contest and managed to finish it, although I tested it yesterday and found a problem that I have to go back and start the build all over again to fix!! :shock:
Becciburt, I do hope you are able to find a job that's better than the last! Around here you should count your blessings if you manage to find one!
When I first moved to Tennessee from Massachussetts back in late summer of 96, we had this massive power surge that blew out the main transformer in our side of town. Being that we were just outside the city limits they decided we could wait :evil: So here we are in the hottest darn month of the year in sweltering heat and no clue as to when we were going to have AC again. After 4 days someone finally shows up with a new transformer, gets up on the pole to change it, gets the old one moved and the new one in place and then hits the wrong cable blowing the new transformer and sending him flying off the pole (thankfully the guy was rigged with saftey harnesses and such so only sustained minor injuries). Anyways it was 2 weeks without power before they had another new one in place and running...ugh :roll: And yeah I lost everything in my fridge and freezer. Glad everything is ok now though with all of you and hope this week turns out to be great for everyone.
Hopefully we will all find some quality sim time this week :P
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