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Those of you north of here have suffered through so many snow storms already this year. Unlike last year, we've lucked out through them in the DC area until now.
We got less than 5 inches last night, and my power went out for 11 damn hours! Hundreds of thousands of people in the area are still without power. I hear people north of us dealing with so many feet of snow, but I don't hear widespread complaints that their power went out. Pepco, why do you suck so much? When we were hit with repeated blizzards last year, I understood when we went for days without power. But now, I hear your officials complaining on the radio that we got a foot of snow last night and that is total bullshit! You were not taken by surprise by the few inches we got.
I was awake half the night worrying if once again I would lose all the food in the refrigerator and thus hundreds of dollars of groceries it is a hardship now to replace, as has happened at least once a year the past couple of years. Yes, I know global warming is making storms rougher--but this one was less than 5 damn inches!
I grew up north of here in NJ loving snow. I missed snow when I lived in North Carolina. But living in this area has succeeded in making me totally hate snow. The infrastructure in this area sucks so very much. I want to be living in the woods, so when this shit happens I know to expect it and know that's the price for my wonderful trees, and be content with the trade off. Oh yay-now the power is threatening to go out again . . . .
/End spoiled 1st world rant
Edit: Pepco OUTRAGE Map. (spelling intentional)
Edit 2: Outage map has been taken down since 7 pm this Thursday evening and, as of 12:55 am Friday morning, it is still down. No covering tracks going on here, no.
The consultants said obtaining information from Pepco was "extremely difficult." Pepco executives delayed, made minimal disclosures and, when they did respond, did so "never in a clear or transparent manner," the report said.
The consultants said they found numerous discrepancies in Pepco's data, indicating that something was "seriously awry" and that the company's dismal reliability record could actually be understating the extent of its problems . . . "Pepco appears to be only committed to performing the minimum required to meet regulations, directives and the law," the report said. "They exhibit no desire to excel."
From the WaPo here.
Also from the WaPo, an article on Pepco's response to this current outage.
Edit 3: Here's a thought. But can halting dividends be legislated by the state legislature? Would they have the guts to do it?
We got less than 5 inches last night, and my power went out for 11 damn hours! Hundreds of thousands of people in the area are still without power. I hear people north of us dealing with so many feet of snow, but I don't hear widespread complaints that their power went out. Pepco, why do you suck so much? When we were hit with repeated blizzards last year, I understood when we went for days without power. But now, I hear your officials complaining on the radio that we got a foot of snow last night and that is total bullshit! You were not taken by surprise by the few inches we got.
I was awake half the night worrying if once again I would lose all the food in the refrigerator and thus hundreds of dollars of groceries it is a hardship now to replace, as has happened at least once a year the past couple of years. Yes, I know global warming is making storms rougher--but this one was less than 5 damn inches!
I grew up north of here in NJ loving snow. I missed snow when I lived in North Carolina. But living in this area has succeeded in making me totally hate snow. The infrastructure in this area sucks so very much. I want to be living in the woods, so when this shit happens I know to expect it and know that's the price for my wonderful trees, and be content with the trade off. Oh yay-now the power is threatening to go out again . . . .
/End spoiled 1st world rant
Edit: Pepco OUTRAGE Map. (spelling intentional)
Edit 2: Outage map has been taken down since 7 pm this Thursday evening and, as of 12:55 am Friday morning, it is still down. No covering tracks going on here, no.
The consultants said obtaining information from Pepco was "extremely difficult." Pepco executives delayed, made minimal disclosures and, when they did respond, did so "never in a clear or transparent manner," the report said.
The consultants said they found numerous discrepancies in Pepco's data, indicating that something was "seriously awry" and that the company's dismal reliability record could actually be understating the extent of its problems . . . "Pepco appears to be only committed to performing the minimum required to meet regulations, directives and the law," the report said. "They exhibit no desire to excel."
From the WaPo here.
Also from the WaPo, an article on Pepco's response to this current outage.
Edit 3: Here's a thought. But can halting dividends be legislated by the state legislature? Would they have the guts to do it?
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My apartment is well insulated, and I'm perimenopausal for the win, so I was OK on the warmth front. But one day, there's going to be 5 frickin inches of snow and temps will be well below freezing, instead of on the borderline, and a lot more ill and elderly people in less well-insulated places here are going to die. I need to write my congresspeople. And for the last 2 hours, the outage map has been offline--maybe too many angry people have linked to it and they're covering up some more.
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Go on, rub it in! Rub it in! ;-P
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Grrr to DC Power people. It's not like they don't have the resources to improve their infrastructure.
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I just talked to my dad in Philly, who's completely snowed in.
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It's short compared to last year, but it really shouldn't have lasted more than a couple of hours or so, instead of long enough for me to start panicking, and a total hardship for disabled and elderly people in the area with less insulated homes than I'm lucky to live in--these cinderblocks really retain the heat.
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*hugshugshugs* I'm so sorry you have this stress to deal with.
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Yes, it has stayed back on. Too many people in the area are not going to get their power back until tomorrow or even Sunday. And they took down the outage map 2 hours ago under the pretext they are updating it--that's a bit long--methinks they got linked by too many angry people and they're trying to cover up. we'll see if they put it up anytime soon.
The problem is that the temps were borderline and above freezing, so putting it in the snow could be a good way of getting food poisoning if you don't recognize the spoilage.
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When the lamp oil runs low, Sam gets out the candles and a nice big fleecy blanket for two :-)
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Awww, thank you for the lovely scene to keep me warm. (-:
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Yep, they just don't do snow well here. If you lose power for 5", it makes you scared for the rest of the winter. I remember you losing food last yr for similar reasons now that you mention it. So sorry hon, hopefully it won't happen. *hugs*
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No power is no fun.
*hugs*
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*snugs*
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And no, it's a porch, and the temps have been too high to do that safely even if I had a balcony--it went up a little above freezing today. The trunk idea is a good one if this happens when it's well below freezing.--thanks--I'll remember that.
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That was a day I thanked my lucky stars to be unemployed and off the beltway at rush hour. I was on it to go feed my New Carrollton garage kitties just before it got bad--I totally lucked out not to be caught in it.
*more hugs for your enduring that ordeal*
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Smooches,
Mechtild
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And I'm onto my next crisis, which is that my unemployment benefit claim got denied due to them having no information on me having worked last year, and now I have to appeal. I'd bet that unemployment check I don't have that this mess-up is my company's doing, and that they didn't bother to file the proper papers with the state. *shakes head*
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(P.S. What's "decrufting"? Just curious.)
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