How many without power?

[Greyman50]

Ok, how many here are without electricity? Ours went out around midnight last night. Generator running and all extension cords being used.

 

[lihpster]

Since I came into this world, I've been without power. For the best, really. I'd probably just abuse it.

 

[pharmer]

Since I came into this world, I've been without power. For the best, really. I'd probably just abuse it.

Unfortunately, I could only give that post 1 "like."
Fortunately, we lost power half a dozen times last night but all were "momentary," just enough to mess with computers, modem, and "cooling compressors." Joe

 

[Bugkiller99]

Mine was out about 12 hours, 10pm—10am. Since the 2004 when 4 hurricanes hit Florida back to back to back to back, the utility companies have learned some hard lessons and are pretty good at restoring power.

 

[LVSteve]

I think I see what the OP did there.

 

[Greyman50]

Gee, Ray Charles could see…….

 

[chief38]

I would have bet money that we would have lost power when Helene went by us. To my surprise we did not - not even a flicker. Last hurricane (Ian) we lost power for almost 3 days. Thankfully we had the Generac on duty.

 

[Chuck24]

My Generac says “Not Me”

 

[rustythread]

Got my power back with the divorce.

 

[ameridaddy]

Only a few flickers, just enough to dump the computer, around 11 last night.

 

[sheepdawg]

From 3:30am. to about 11am. The western part of the eye went over my house around 6am. I'm thankful God was watching over us as I have a bunch of trees. I was prepared to be out of power for a week. Big surprise as others in Habersham County, GA still are out.

 

[Rudi]

Mine was out for 1.5 hours the other day, but I'm 3000 miles away. A transformer blew.

 

[Heinz]

I am in the South Carolina Piedmont with Lauren’s electric power has been off 36 hours still waiting. Greenville power outages are pretty much a mess.

 

[SweetMK]

They took our power down at 2:00 PM. today.
they said our power feed had to go down so that the could fix a feed in the next county over,,
They predicted a 2 hour outage

I hope it works,, three surrounding counties have been 80-100% out since yesterday morning,,

I have a Harbor Freight inverter,, 750 watt??
It runs the internet, computers, wife's CPAP,, TV,, a few lights.

We have never been out of power long enough to drain a car battery,,
Typically, 2 to 5 hours maximum,,
I have a 10K generator,, if the power is down for 3 or more hours,,, recharge the fridge,, etc,,

 

[SweetMK]

Our power just came back on,,,

The two hour estimate turned into four hours!!

 

[Greyman50]

Son is in Roanoke, he got a motel as his rental had no power. Ours is Still out. Heard Ga. power is “ concentrating on the big cities” so to heck with small towns. Hope to be moving early next year.

 

[LVSteve]

Son is in Roanoke, he got a motel as his rental had no power. Ours is Still out. Heard Ga. power is “ concentrating on the big cities” so to heck with small towns. Hope to be moving early next year.

I call that 'McNamara thinking'. If you have a fix that gets the lights on for 1,000 people, or a fix that works for 100,000, guess which one looks better on the sortie sheet.

 

[Greyman50]

Would only take a few trucks and crews to get things fixed here. Have a good memory.

 

[djohns6]

I call that 'McNamara thinking'. If you have a fix that gets the lights on for 1,000 people, or a fix that works for 100,000, guess which one looks better on the sortie sheet.

SOP for all power companies .

 

[Heinz]

I was back on power just after I posted above. I think Laurens Electric and Duke Power did a spectacular job considering the massive number of trees down and the amount of local flooding.