Tag: power outages

Surviving Snowpocalypse

Monday’s snowfall was even worse than last week’s. We must have gotten 6 inches of heavy, wet snow. I took the bus home before travel got really dicey.  To add to the misery, many places lost power – including us. The power flickered off and on in the wee hours, then went off. Fortunately, the …

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A Question for Utility Companies

Why wait until there’s an ice or wind storm to trim branches away from overhead lines, especially if you don’t want to bear the expense of burying said lines? When we lived in North Carolina, we had two ice storms that cut power to our neighborhood for two days each. Some folks lost power for …

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