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[the_rck]

Cordelia's school lost power again today. They have an emergency generator which is good because there are rooms with no windows. I really hope that this isn't a thing that's going to keep happening because a lot of classes rely on internet and because the heat relies on electricity. No heat/AC isn't going to hurt the kids today, but it could be really nasty in January.

Our power blipped about half an hour after Cordelia got home. It was just long enough for everything to shut off. I was watching a DVD at the time. After I post this, I'll be going around and resetting clocks.

I'm more awake today, but I'm still not trying to get anything serious done, just some watching some DVDs and reading some library books. I'm also working on making a to-do list for the weekend because we have errands to run while Scott's home to drive.

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[evalerie]

I put the address of Cordelia's school into Google's Project Sunroof website, so that it would calculate an estimate of what solar power would cost and how much money it would save over time. I told it that the current electricity bills for the school are $500/month -- a number that I totally invented. Google says that the school could save $75K over 20 years with solar power. And, that would probably help ensure against power outages. :)

[the_rck]

I imagine it would. I'm not prepared to lead the crusade, though. I just don't have that many spoons.

[evalerie]

Yeah. I was posting that more as "infotainment" than as any kind of a suggestion to do something about it. :)

[tinfoilvardan]

In England we rarely experience power cuts, but the Husband is American and he says it was a natural way of living in California. Is it a recurring thing for where you live?

[the_rck]

Part of the problem here is that squirrels chew on the wires, but most of it is that our electrical infrastructure is poorly maintained. Most of the time, if power goes out, it's either a storm bringing down wires or a transformer blowing due to being old.

Sometimes, the power company plans an outage but doesn't tell people about it. My daughter's school lost power for about eight hours five or so years ago due to the power company doing planned work. For some reason, the power company didn't inform the school in advance. It took out the heat, and it was cold enough by two hours in that the kids were wearing their coats. Because it was an elementary school they couldn't just send the kids home immediately.

[evalerie]

We once had an exchange student from Germany who said that the power lines where she lived were all buried, and so power outages were pretty much nonexistent. She thought it was our overhead power lines that made the power go out so much more often here than there.

[tinfoilvardan]

Haha! That's Germany for you. Everything runs like clockwork.