Power is out

[Chris142]

Got up to pee about 515a. While in there the room went dark. Went outside to check breakers and all are OK.

Noticed that the whole area is dark with the exception of a few solar lights.

Went to our neighborly FB group and its not just my place for sure.

It's already pretty warm and will only get hotter after the sun comes up. The estimate is 1p for the power to come back on.


Generator needs to be excercised anyway.
Im gonna write a book about my life.

 

[The_Jeff]

Im gonna write a book about my life.

Are you writing the hole story?

 

[Pew]

Are you writing the hole story?

The hole story is about his well

 

[SwampSurvivor]

We have a third world power grid where I am. If we go a day without a power outage, that's really something. Usually it's 3-4 thirty second power outages throughout the day. Sometimes it's a few hours. Out of nowhere.

 

[Kira]

With reckless financial stewardship, the transportation and power systems {anything else, anybody?) we need, will likely never be built.

 

[nomas]

Around here , nobody looks at the outage map , they take a poll on Facebook . " Is anybody else's power out ? "

 

[Snagglefoot]

Coincidently, we had an outage last night. The main effects were the AC went out, the ceiling fan turned off, and most importantly the coffee maker didn’t come on automatically.

Trivia: The Kootenay River flows down our valley and joins the Columbia River. Two large dams, the Mica Dam and the Revelstoke Dam provide hydro electric power and as a bonus, the Columbia Valley Trust provides money for community projects.

 

[Chris142]

Around here , nobody looks at the outage map , they take a poll on Facebook . " Is anybody else's power out ? "

I honestly did not know they had a map. Spent about 20 minutes looking for one just now. FB is faster.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Dominion sends me a text when the power is out. Even give an estimate of when it will come back on, which its usually on sooner. I guess that is one positive about Dominion.

 

[Rand]

Had 5 outages here last tues/weds.
lasted from 1min to 10mins.

Last year we had record power outages and the city was considering suing Firstenergy

 

[Kestas]

Thankfully, Michigan is depopulating, leaving more energy for those remaining.

 

[mrvmax]

I live in a hurricane prone area so I have a whole house gen that starts up after 10 seconds of power loss. I am a heavy sleeper but it gets so quiet when the power goes off that I wake up. It doesn’t take long to hear the gen power up and that is fairly noisy.

 

[walterjay]

Power is very reliable where I live. Any outage is quickly resolved.

 

[doitmyself]

sveiki @Kestas. Always pleasant to see you pop in here.

To everyone: Beware Karma regarding use of generators! During our June 2 day power outage at my workplace/residence, our commercial standby Kohler generator (with Ford engine) fired up to meet the challenge. Meanwhile I fired up our brand new portable Generac 18kw unit to operate the other 2 buildings.

I was struttin' around like king rooster all in control of my domain until the second night and I hear this Extreme Horrific grinding noise and the Kohler generator comes to a halt. Yikes! The water pump imploded and I approached with flashlight to find it bleeding in a pool of coolant. Heavy sigh. Fortunately, the power came back on in a few hours.

NEVER claim master of your domain! Humble and appreciative is the correct standard operating procedure.

 

[Astro14]

Hurricanes used to knock out our power in Virginia Beach for days at a time. Always wanted a whole house NG generator. Couldn’t ever justify it for a house we knew we would sell.

The availability of natural gas as a utility makes that a really nice option, though. Unlimited fuel.

Now, in the new place, the whole house generator runs on propane. We don’t have NG. So, we have to have the fuel stored on site. Far less convenient from that perspective, but even with that, we love having the whole house generator.

Curious to see how it works when the power goes out. I’m told that it rarely goes out where we are. Utility lines being underground helps considerably.

 

[Pablo]

Power is very reliable where I live. Any outage is quickly resolved.

Main cause here are trees. People plant fast growing TALL trees under powerlines then move or croak. New owners mostly ex city folks and live in a brane bubble.

Bam. Outage.

Edit - private contractor tree cutting is slow and expensive but does the trick road by road

 

[cheetah50]

Power here is a crapshoot. I don't bother with the generator unless its been out for at least 3-4 hours. The voltage profile, harmonic distortion are all excellent, the problem they have is just keeping it on. Trees cause some of it, I basically live in a mountain forest. The biggest issue though is lack of equipment maintenance. The latest cause was the recloser coils burning up...they done really well though, considering they were made in 1963. My neighbor is a lineman so I get to hear all about the issues that plague the system. According to him they have some poles (wooden) that were setup in the 1930's as part of the depression work area programs that are still in service...rotten to all heck but still in service until they break anyway.

Edit: A little searching found the project he was talking about, its quite a ways away from me but still the same company. https://www.aeptransmission.com/kentucky/Myra/

 

[The_Jeff]

Around here , nobody looks at the outage map , they take a poll on Facebook . " Is anybody else's power out ? "

It's not about the facts, it's about the feelings.

 

[Kira]

The availability of natural gas as a utility makes that a really nice option, though.

The popularity of stand-by generators, along with aging pipes, has prompted the local utility to enlarge every inch of gas handling pipe in my town. As well, the line pressure was increased from 1/4 psi to 4 psi.

Unlimited fuel.

I shan't comment. (ha-ha)

 

[JTK]

The grid is pretty reliable where I live. I can only think of one or two times in my lifetime when we lost power for more than 6hrs. On the flip side of this, I can think of many times we were snowed in for days at a time. Always gives and takes.