OT: Who Lost Power?
Weirdly enough, we actually survived the most serious of the wind and had it when I got home around 6. Took a nap due to my waking up at 5 AM to play ball, and then snapped awake around 8 PM to a totally dark house.
Still don't have power back. So weird how basically life shuts down without it.
What do I win?
she posted on FB that 650,000 people were without power for an extended period of time. Not sure how many homes that is.
It's weird how we take this luxury for granted and then freak out when we don't have power! Mostly because we can sit in front of our screens and click mindlessly through the interwebs...
It was trash day where I live. I must live near Mad Hatter because there were porn magazines strewn everywhere.
For saying "migrant workers". It's more polite than illegal immigrants.
Also, I just spent $300 on a 20 year old generator. I jinxed myself by starting that thread yesterday and my power went out last night around midnight. After the winds died down.
So WTF LSA?!?! I thought I had made it.
The old problem with wind storms is still the same problem with wind storms unfortunately - even as the winds are dying out, the last gust will do a few more trees in and....well....as you've now experienced....we get a smaller second wave of trouble.
I was just feeling so smug this time since anytime an angel farts I lose power (it's called Royal Oak for a reason, and that reason falls down in the wind quite often).
We really should invest the money and just bury all the damn lines. I mean, gas and water lines are already down there. Edison kind of dropped the ball with that one.
Lost it around 1PM. Came back on around 8PM. Lost a couple big trees in my yard.
We lost the 65-70 year old maple in our front yard.
Hey, thanks for the shout out. Sorry about your tree.
When you posted that I laughed the rest of the night and had to give your due.
Thanks for the tree condolences.
Stupid double post
Didn't lose electricity, but lost my cable TV and internet. Felt very disconnected.
thats what we call pergatory
Lost power for a minute at 4:30pm but it came right back on. Thank god.
Do you live in Ypsi Township by any chance? I had the exact same experience
Same in Northville. No damage - only had to reset the microwave clock.
Ha. Same. That and the coffee maker I don't use
Stay strong man!
I know - first world problems... I don't even bother resetting the VCR that I haven't used in ten years.
ScottyP's in Maumee Ohio, we lost it from 1130am till 10pm, I am the IT Manager, and have no generator, had to buy one then run extensions chords. I have been telling them for months to get a generator, apparently they didn't know what ScottyP was sayin'.
has some Ragrets
Around the area is that power won't be coming back till Sunday. Yikes.
Took the homeless shower this morning myself (didn't shower).
but by the time I got home everything was working.
Didn't lose power, but my cable and internet is down. SO WHATS THE POINT!?
You can always dust off the old snes or at least play minesweeper
Pretty good deal for me - I have power, but my work doesn't. Day off!
But the whole getting a cold and dying when you are 45 wasn't that great.
If by "cold" you meant cholera, typhoid fever, or the like, sure, but life expectancy back then was more about dying in infancy or childhood or through epidemics. If you lived to be 30 and kept on living clean, you had a good chance to make it to old age.
Down since 1:00 pm yesterday. Miller / Maple traffic light down as well.
Most of the lights around the Livonia-Novi area were cooked. Traffic was brutal, generally because people don't get the whole "light becomes a 4-way stop" concept.
I'm in Canton and we lost power last night
Same story as the OP, for me. Everything fine until 7:30ish, then a transformer blew up in a neighbor's yard. Now half the block has power and half the block doesn't, and I'm in the downstream half. I don't expect it back for a loooong time, not with so few people around me out. It's not a whole-neighborhood thing.
All good in the Southern part of Ann Arbor. I'm impressed that our power never went out at all yesterday.
I live in Ypsi township around Hitchingham. We survived luckily with no damage. Our power was out till about 6:30 pm last night. It seems my road was the dividing line between those with power right now and those still without power. Many houses in our neighborhood had roof and fence damage. While I was taking my dog out for a walk last afternoon, i saw a trampoline take flight.
According to online estimates, I'll be in the black until Sat. night.
Pride comes before the black out.
If you have power loss please call East Lansing Clueless & Powerless at (517) 393-9390
I expect better at this point.
Due to the sheer oversaturation of the 3-9, they better be top notch. IE, shouldn't the area code be 939?
I almost hate to say this - my part of Romulus did not lose power, although we suffered a lot of tree damage and our circuit did not come out of it totally untouched (parts of my circuit are in fact out, including one street in my sub).
If you haven't reported your outage yet, please do so, or at least try to do so - if you're not getting estimates, it's because quite frankly the damage is still being assessed in a lot of place. There is that much in some spots.
If there is anything to report, or if you have questions, feel free to ask them and I will try to find time to answer them.