Muswell Hill

Just ended another 24 hours with no leccy. I have had nore power cuts here than i ever had in the UK. I am going to buy a mini generator to run the fridge on for the next one so i don't end up chucking out all my food.

What have your experiences been, with power cuts, not throwing food out?

Jerseygirl

Sure we have them here but to be honest we had more power cuts in the UK. Our road was the only one in the village with overhead cables. One weekend just before Christmas we were without power for 3 days.

NC Penguin

Hiya from the Piedmont. I lost power in my home for nearly 6 hours yesterday. Fortunately, I have a dual fuel range (hobs are gas, oven is gas) so I was able to rustle up dinner.

On the other hand, a coworker who lives elsewhere in my city is still without electricity for more than 24 hours. She's been told by Duke Energy that her electricity will be restored by 5.00pm Thursday!

PS: if you live in the west of the state, you might want to invest in a powerful enough generator to provide heat. I was without power for 7.5 days in the winter of 2002. If you loose power in the winter in the west of the state, it'll be far more grim than where I live...


NC Penguin

danfan

Really? I never had a power cut in my whole life in UK, even living in the country.

I've had 10 or 12 here, in the city mostly but also in the country. Damn power lines above ground so every time the wind blows or an idiot driver crashes into a pole, they fall down.

Worst one for me - we lost power for 13 days once after a hurricane. We did get power for a few hours on day 5 but then it was out again. Horrific humidity those weeks too, we all stank to high heaven and lost all our food, obviously. We were going to DH's work to have showers, freezing ones as that, whenever we could & had to go out of the area to eat in fast food restaurants all the time. It was horrible.

TruBrit

same here, never had a power cut in the uk but here at least once a week, bless it's all their overhead cables

Jerseygirl

Like I said...where we lived in the UK we had overhead power cables. Every time we had a storm we would always boil the kettle for a cuppa before the power went off.

TruBrit

nope never had any probs with the leccy in the uk, guess we put enough money in our meter

TouristTrap

I feel for all of y'all. Was without for 24 or so hours around the time Charley came around and it was not fun.

Thydney

The first thing we bought after our house was a standby generator that runs off LPG. Power was off the other day if fired up we managed to plod on.

TouristTrap

I keep forgetting to buy one....hopefully we won't experience any this year, with the cold we've been having.

Thydney

Worth every penny our power goes all the time

penguinsix

My apartment in DC hasn't had a power cut for about 15 years, but all the lines are buried. My house out in the country, however, has several a year. We have overhead lines and trees trees trees.

It sucks all the worse because we are on an electric well for our water, so a loss of power also means no h20.

Bob

It's a shower of shite this ain't it...power companies really need to pull their fingers out.

But amusingly enough, most of the power outages around here and up in Maine occur in the summer, not because of crap weather, but because a sub station blows up when everyone switches the AC on etc.

AdobePinon

I worked damned hard to cut him off from the internet. Which one of you went and restored his power?

penguinsix

Critters. I forgot to mention critters. The second leading cause of outages here are opossums, racoons and birds flying into substations and taking out part of the grid.