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Power outage

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Opposite side of our street was without power until about 9:30 last night. Our's flickered briefly but never went out. We were without cable for quite awhile.

Still no power here at the office on the southside. Running off a couple of generators.

PrincessPeach;1261063; said:
Are you sure that was a result of the weather? Rumor has it, Bucky Katt was seen in your neighborhood yesterday evening... and I heard from my brother's friend's cousin's UPS driver that your table was running around on him...
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Yes, apparently AEP was out at the scene of the afforementioned tree on power lines in my neighbors back yard... they're saying Wednesday at the earliest before they get me back on line.
 
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WFMJ youngstown reports that 180k people were sans power this morning in the valley (Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties) - as of noon that number was still 141k - and i'm in that group. we have been without for 19 hours now - and we live in the area that they said got the worst of the storm for Austintown
 
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Power just came back on for me this evening. Just in time to save most of my food from going bad. I guess there's a mad dash for gas, and there's some price gouging going on out there.

I'm really lucky to have power. There's a lot of other people out there that are gonna end up going a week, and people whose medication needs to stay refrigerated and things like that that are going to struggle with this.

I'm a little upset that there was very little warning about this. They have a Big Old Freakout on every local channel when we're bracing for two inches of snow and a two hour delay for school, but when wind is coming to blow down power lines topple trees and tear off chunks of roofs, we don't hear hardly a thing about it until 15 minutes before a half a million people are without power.
 
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jlb1705;1261573; said:
I'm a little upset that there was very little warning about this. They have a Big Old Freakout on every local channel when we're bracing for two inches of snow and a two hour delay for school, but when wind is coming to blow down power lines topple trees and tear off chunks of roofs, we don't hear hardly a thing about it until 15 minutes before a half a million people are without power.
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Have to admit, I'm a bit concerned about it myself. Saw winds much worse than this several times in Jacksonville without this sort of outage, and JEA was (by far) the most incompetent power company I've been exposed to across 12 states. The only explanation for this level of damage is improper maintenance and poor preparedness. Even if the area sent a lot of its techs down to Texas, and I'm not aware that it has.

On the flip side, Florida is somewhat used to it, and thus more prepared. Still, AEP should always been ready for any reasonable contingency.

Anyway, it's over this time. We came online with power some time last night, got internet back around 4pm today. Honestly, I don't know what we would have done with a week down, it would have been ugly over here with my needs.
 
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