Power Cuts
 

Woke up this morning at about 8:20 to discover that we had no power. Found out from the neighbours it went off around 7:30am, and it eventually came back on at 10:55am. Then at about 2:30pm, just as I was putting the finishing touches to a lengthy email, the bloody power went out again, but this time for only 10 minutes. This is not as unusual as you might think - in the 25 months we've lived in our current house we've had a couple of power cuts obviously due to storms but about half a dozen outages (including today's as one) in good weather for no apparent reason. I lived for a similar period of time in a town in Uganda and can honestly say that I found the power supply there to be marginally more reliable than it is here in north-central NJ.

Is the power supply more or less reliable than this for everyone else? We live in a fairly suburbanised area 30 miles west of New York - it's not like we're out in the sticks here.

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Power went out here at 2300 hrs last night and went on again at 1430. happens at least twice a month in the winter months up here due to snow fall and/or ice storms.

I am so sick of hearing how advanced this country is.......power lines on poles in winters with snowfall measured in feet NOT inches ???? WTF is all that about. I can remember the last time I had a power cut in the UK.

We have 6 kids here....I can't afford to be subjected to regular powercuts. Everytime the lights come back on there's another bloody mouth to feed.

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It happens enough here that I bought a small generator to power the essentials.
We has a similiar thread a while back on the subject:
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=386276

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Ah - I missed that because I was back in the old country on holiday (and the last time I remember experiencing a power cut in Britain was back in the late 70s).

Edit: just read that thread - perhaps this one will also end up with people having sex with farm animals in Home Depot.

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power cuts, yup, loads of them, on really hot days with AC madness, in heavy rain because people crash into the poles, in snow, because theres a lot of it and poles break...

it was pretty bad in maine as well, even in a "City"...but it's as bad here down in mass..

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Power cuts are a way of life in Florida.

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The states need to start paying their bills for the hydro that they are buying from canada! ;)

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It amused me the way they at first tried to blame Canada for the big blackout in the northeast USA in August 03.

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Ah with the bush administration we get blamed for everything - just the other day bush was quoted as saying that canada was a "terror threat". :D

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I thought Canada was just the USA's hat?

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Oh Canada - also known to certain people as the Soviet Republic of Canuckistan. :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lag.PNG/180px-

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Here the US map

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England is a bit specific - shouldn't it be London?

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You called? :rolleyes:

Frequent power outages in South Jersey, seems to be when it rains hard for some reason.

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I thought we were just considered the "bedroom" of the states! ;)