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| Re: Naval Medical Center San Diego [message #647324 is a reply to message #647322] |
Tue, 26 January 2016 12:27   |
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Michel Cadot
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Saint-Maur, France, https...
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Will wait until you'll come back.
I'm quite surprised about this power outage, above all a planned one.
The only time this happened to me was when they buried the power lines and this was just the time to cut off the old line and activate the new one, that is a couple of minutes.
Otherwise there were some unplanned outages due to old fuse boxes (which leads to change the line).
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| Re: Naval Medical Center San Diego [message #647329 is a reply to message #647324] |
Tue, 26 January 2016 12:59 |
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Barbara Boehmer
Messages: 9104
Registered: November 2002
Location: California, USA
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Planned and unplanned power outages are frequent around here.
We frequently get very strong winds. Every time we get strong winds, they either blow down power poles or lines directly or blow trees and thing onto the power lines that knock them down or blow things onto power lines that short them out. So, during every windstorm, there are multiple outages. They give priority to the ones that affect the most customers. The last time we had a big windstorm in December, the power was out in my neighborhood for 19 hours.
I received a notice in the mail that there would be a planned maintenance outage all day January 7, but it never happened. Then I received a new message saying that the maintenance that was originally scheduled for January 7 has been reschedule for today, January 26. What they do is plan to do maintenance to various places in the neighborhood, shutting power off and on. They don't know what time your area will be or how long it will take, so they give the broadest range of 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. So, far today, the power has not gone out yet. However, we are having heavy winds again. So, they may be responding to new outages and have to postpone the maintenance again, just like last time.
Every time they provide advance notice of a planned power outage, I try to plan around it as best I can. I try to make sure that I don't plan to be doing something that requires electricity that cannot be interrupted without causing problems. So, I had hot apple cinnamon oatmeal and hot chocolate prepared in the microwave before 7:30 a.m. and made sure that I don't have perishable items in the refrigerator. In the meanwhile, I have bread and peanut butter and jelly and potato chips and fruit and pudding and things that I can eat that do not require cooking using the microwave or toaster oven. I will plan to shop for fresh groceries and restock the refrigerator tomorrow.
The weather causes other things to be postponed as well. In December, I hired a company to put a new roof on my house. They were scheduled to start January 25, but due to weather postponing the jobs ahead of mine, it has been rescheduled to start February 2, but that may get postponed again. In the meanwhile, I had a company put tarps all over my roof back in December, but every time the wind blows it tears them. I told the company doing the re-roofing to bring a generator with them, as I cannot guarantee that I will have any electricity for them to plug in to power their equipment.
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| Re: Naval Medical Center San Diego [message #647332 is a reply to message #647331] |
Tue, 26 January 2016 14:05 |
John Watson
Messages: 8967
Registered: January 2010
Location: Global Village
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Where I live now (in picture-postcard rural England) power is reliable. I lived in South Africa for many years, for six years on a 1 hectare plot about half way between Johannesburg and Pretoria. Very rural! The power problem was awful because the cables, swinging from poles for many kilometers, were stolen. Repeatedly. The villains throw a wire over the cables so that the power gets shorted to ground. That makes the switches on the distributor boxes jump so they can cut down the cables safely and sell them to scrap metal dealers. The only time we had reliable power was when the distributor boxes were fitted with more intelligent switches: they jump open, and then a few minutes later close again. This is meant to fix short term problems. Well, it certainly fixed the theft problem: the power would come back on while the villains were busy. But it seems that the electricity maintenance men became very upset at the number of corpses they were having to deal with, so the switches were reset so that they stayed open. I have to say that I did not agree with this.
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