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Evil Chris 04-16-2007 06:39 PM

Power outage
 
Power has been out most of the day here. It went out at around 9am and only came back at about 4pm. This happens a couple times a year when the weather gets bad... usually high winds are to blame.

But it used to be worse when I first moved to this area in the late 90s. It seems every time we had any kind of moderate storm, the power would go out. They've made many improvements since then thankfully.

Anyone else lose power a lot? Or today at all?

Visualad 04-16-2007 07:14 PM

"funny" you mention this.. As it just happened to me yesterday..

I was going to create a thread about it, since I found it interesting how "crippled" I got without anything working.

No TV means you cant chill watching series or a movie.. No computer and internet means you cant work efficiently.. no nothing basically..

So.. with nothing working I could not do anything and I had the choice of either going out with friends or do some house chores.. ;-)

But still... When power goes out, it really hits you how dependant we are on all these electrical devices... :-(

Way3 04-16-2007 07:33 PM

I guess I'm just lucky to live where I do. I just can't image being out of power that long! Hope it gets better for you guys! :)

Evil Chris 04-17-2007 08:55 AM

About an hour after I posted this thread, the power went out once again and didn't come back until about 10:30pm.

StaceyJo 04-17-2007 10:28 AM

yeah its kinda weird when power goes off...

Platinum Chris 04-17-2007 10:46 AM

At my prior residence a couple years ago, we lost power alot! Typically we'd get lots of quick flashes, to compete outages for about 30mins+.

At first, I thought it was something going on in the house, but later, I figured it was the power-station terminal up the street. The grid we were on, and that routing station had to be knocked offline a lot due to tons of construction going on in the surrounding areas :(

Slippery 04-17-2007 01:12 PM

I had a computer go completely dead on me because of a lightning storm once that knocked our our power!

Cyndalie 04-17-2007 03:05 PM

Lots of flooding around but power's been good!

Panky 04-17-2007 05:16 PM

Our power couldn't decide for awhile if it was going to stay on or go off. Our grid seemed to hold its own pretty well, but other areas of town lost the battle.

Did you ever get that eery feeling when driving through a town at night when there are no lights on anywhere and your car is the only one on the road?

gabrio 04-18-2007 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Visualad (Post 122601)
"funny" you mention this.. As it just happened to me yesterday..

I was going to create a thread about it, since I found it interesting how "crippled" I got without anything working.

No TV means you cant chill watching series or a movie.. No computer and internet means you cant work efficiently.. no nothing basically..

So.. with nothing working I could not do anything and I had the choice of either going out with friends or do some house chores.. ;-)

But still... When power goes out, it really hits you how dependant we are on all these electrical devices... :-(

yeah and it feels like being in 2000 BC

GoodChris 04-18-2007 07:41 AM

Told ya you should move out my way...not even a flicker here

Evil Chris 04-18-2007 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoodChris (Post 122699)
Told ya you should move out my way...not even a flicker here

You live in the boonies!

TheLegacy 04-18-2007 11:37 AM

and 9mo later the population of montreal doubles

jackbdirty 04-21-2007 05:04 AM

Where are you from?..cause I rarely see a power outage down here in Florida...unless a hurricane..lol.

Jack


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