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Jan. 29th, 2018 12:19 pmBecause life wasn't complicated enough...
We now don't have electricity. DTE says three more hours to get it back. I need to call the plumber to find out if they can work without electricity.
I heard a bang right before the power went which usually means a neighborhood outage, so I'm hoping more people report it so that it gets moved up the list of priorities. If nothing else, I want my shoulder heating pad.
ETA: Ten minutes after I posted, power came back. DTE says it was 'bird or animal damage to DTE equipment,' and it does appear to have been neighborhood wide.
I'm still glad I had ordered lunch delivered before things went out. Eating that filled the time that I would otherwise have spent worrying.
We now don't have electricity. DTE says three more hours to get it back. I need to call the plumber to find out if they can work without electricity.
I heard a bang right before the power went which usually means a neighborhood outage, so I'm hoping more people report it so that it gets moved up the list of priorities. If nothing else, I want my shoulder heating pad.
ETA: Ten minutes after I posted, power came back. DTE says it was 'bird or animal damage to DTE equipment,' and it does appear to have been neighborhood wide.
I'm still glad I had ordered lunch delivered before things went out. Eating that filled the time that I would otherwise have spent worrying.
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Date: 2018-01-29 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-29 05:58 pm (UTC)A transformer going sounds like a firecracker. The more central ones are louder when they go. The last few years, those have been the main culprit for power loss in our neighborhood.
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Date: 2018-01-29 06:00 pm (UTC)(I remember Mom telling me that one days as she drove home she saw the neighbors all standing out in their front yard. She got home and there was no power. She called them, asking if they were standing outside because they had no power, and they said "No, we're standing outside because our dog found a dead squirrel." That one was quite easy to figure out. XD)
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Date: 2018-01-29 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-29 06:04 pm (UTC)We'd often lose water because fire ants would get into the pump for the well. The solution for that was to go out and bang on the pump with a ball peen hammer.