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We have power again. When I got home, we didn't - sort of. Scott got home around 5:30 and discovered that parts of the house had power, and parts did not. The master bedroom did; nothing else upstairs (including the computer room) did. The desktop computers were already down when he arrived. The kitchen had power to the range and lights, but not to the garbage disposal or microwave. The garage had power to the lights, but not the door.
It took 4 hours from when he called it in to get it fully resolved. Something's hosed between the street and the meter; we'd lost a phase (mostly, we were getting 30 instead of 120) apparently. Which I understand, though I wouldn't have known the terminology for it until tonight. Just what I always wanted to learn.
However, among the things that did not lose power: the freezer (in the garage), the refrigerator (in the kitchen), and the bedroom air conditioner (which was out for a half hour or so after I tried a fix, but the first guy out got that circuit back up - more or less by mistake while he was testing, but hey, I'll take it). So it could have been much, much worse. I was going to play World of Warcraft with Scott tonight; I'm sorry that didn't happen. But yesterday and tomorrow I've had commitments to be online that are owed to people other than Scott - and I'd have had no way to notify them if it had happened a day earlier or later.
During a lull between repair personnel, Scott got us Subway (while I stayed home in case they showed up, but he did before they did, unsurprisingly), so we were fed. (Plenty of food in the fridge and freezer. Mostly...microwaveable. Oops. :)
So, it could have been much worse. They've got a box out there to restore power and we're all good now, but it's not the permanent fix. They'll need a backhoe and a repair crew for that, it seems. At any rate, they said next week sometime maybe, soonest. I asked to be warned a day in advance if possible - because I'd like to have the computers shut off that morning. Yes, they're on UPSs, but I'm betting the UPSs cannot outlast the downtime required to attack the line in any fashion that involves a backhoe. Just my suspicions.
We can roughly ballpark when the problems must have started - or, rather, when they hit the computer room. My laptop went into hibernate mode at 4% battery. Heaven knows when that was. It still had the email program up, showing a failure to connect at about 12:45. That would be when the network went out. The switch and DSL modem are on a UPS all to themselves.... So the outage would have been some while before that.
I'm really very glad it did not take out the refrigerator or freezer. I'm not sure how long those stay "cold enough" once that happens. And I haven't had to figure it out or learn it the hard way today, thanks to pure dumb luck.
Plus, the power is back on in time for us to set the alarm for tomorrow. On the whole, many, many things could have been worse.
It took 4 hours from when he called it in to get it fully resolved. Something's hosed between the street and the meter; we'd lost a phase (mostly, we were getting 30 instead of 120) apparently. Which I understand, though I wouldn't have known the terminology for it until tonight. Just what I always wanted to learn.
However, among the things that did not lose power: the freezer (in the garage), the refrigerator (in the kitchen), and the bedroom air conditioner (which was out for a half hour or so after I tried a fix, but the first guy out got that circuit back up - more or less by mistake while he was testing, but hey, I'll take it). So it could have been much, much worse. I was going to play World of Warcraft with Scott tonight; I'm sorry that didn't happen. But yesterday and tomorrow I've had commitments to be online that are owed to people other than Scott - and I'd have had no way to notify them if it had happened a day earlier or later.
During a lull between repair personnel, Scott got us Subway (while I stayed home in case they showed up, but he did before they did, unsurprisingly), so we were fed. (Plenty of food in the fridge and freezer. Mostly...microwaveable. Oops. :)
So, it could have been much worse. They've got a box out there to restore power and we're all good now, but it's not the permanent fix. They'll need a backhoe and a repair crew for that, it seems. At any rate, they said next week sometime maybe, soonest. I asked to be warned a day in advance if possible - because I'd like to have the computers shut off that morning. Yes, they're on UPSs, but I'm betting the UPSs cannot outlast the downtime required to attack the line in any fashion that involves a backhoe. Just my suspicions.
We can roughly ballpark when the problems must have started - or, rather, when they hit the computer room. My laptop went into hibernate mode at 4% battery. Heaven knows when that was. It still had the email program up, showing a failure to connect at about 12:45. That would be when the network went out. The switch and DSL modem are on a UPS all to themselves.... So the outage would have been some while before that.
I'm really very glad it did not take out the refrigerator or freezer. I'm not sure how long those stay "cold enough" once that happens. And I haven't had to figure it out or learn it the hard way today, thanks to pure dumb luck.
Plus, the power is back on in time for us to set the alarm for tomorrow. On the whole, many, many things could have been worse.
