God damn power companies

2008-06-07 18:18:37

#1

HurricaИe: Banned; +877|6431|Washington DC

Wednesday afternoon a storm hit DC. 60MPH winds, heavy fuckin' rain, and lots of thunder and lightning. Funny enough, I was talking about how calm the day was and how there was probalyb going to be a huge storm. I check the weather channel and sure enough, a huge red blob is moving towards DC.

We lost power 10 minutes into the storm. We did not get it back for 30-ish hours. My question is: who the fuck decided that building power lines ABOVE ground was a good idea? Had they never heard of trees fucking falling? They estimated they wouldn't get power back to every customer until Monday.

Ironically, this shit doesn't happen in urban DC... yet suburban DC is probably a lot richer than urban DC. You'd think more money = ability to put shit underground, but obviously not.

Now there's another big thunderstorm... but low winds. I can only feel sorry for those who got affected by the huge New York blackout a few years ago.

Any one else got power outage rage stories?

2008-06-07 18:21:36

#2

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|7119|Washington DC

During that storm, our power was out about 5 minutes ... about the only major storm in the last 15 years that hasn't knocked out power out for at least 2 hours (big trees all around us).

When hurricane Isabelle hit a few years ago, we didn't have power for 3 1/2 days ... I remember running all over the region trying to find ice.

2008-06-07 18:22:41

#3

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6782

The blackout affected Canada too. That was a bitch in 30+ degrees Celsius. Thank god I got to hang out by my pool.

Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ebug122

2008-06-07 18:23:26

#4

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7313|Alberta, Canada

It's harder to build powerlines underground, they would have dig up alot of dirt and there would be way too much in the way. Building the lines above ground it much simpler, and they can avoid buildings by going around them, not digging under them.

2008-06-07 18:26:21

#5

HurricaИe: Banned; +877|6431|Washington DC

Ryan wrote:
It's harder to build powerlines underground, they would have dig up alot of dirt and there would be way too much in the way. Building the lines above ground it much simpler, and they can avoid buildings by going around them, not digging under them.

hell the lines were already partly on the ground

OH, my dad's house never lost power because the power lines in DC aren't put in retarded places, like in the air right next to trees. Isabelle was annoying though. There's a place near my mom's house that prides itself on its vast stocks of ice and dry ice, so we didn't have much trouble with that.

2008-06-07 18:28:24

#6

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|7119|Washington DC

By the way, hurricane, I'm looking at the weather radar and there's a huge red blob of weather headed right toward you ... duck.

2008-06-07 18:30:05

#7

killer21: Because f*ck you that's why.; +400|7061|Reisterstown, MD

BGE sucks.

2008-06-07 18:31:53

#8

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7313|Alberta, Canada

OrangeHound wrote:
By the way, hurricane, I'm looking at the weather radar and there's a huge red blob of weather headed right toward you ... duck.

Lies?

2008-06-07 18:33:22

#9

Home: Section.80; +447|7318|Seattle, Washington, USA

Ice storm here when I was a kid knocked out the power for about a whole week... We had to stay in a hotel.

2008-06-07 18:33:29

#10

HurricaИe: Banned; +877|6431|Washington DC

OrangeHound wrote:
By the way, hurricane, I'm looking at the weather radar and there's a huge red blob of weather headed right toward you ... duck.

it's been over us for a bit now. just thunder and lightning and a bit of rain. nothing compared to Wednesday's

@Home, my friend's family is staying in a hotel. his house is out in the sticks. when the hurricane OHound was talking about hit, his power was out for a week.

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2008-06-07 18:44:42

#11

icecold2510: Member; +31|6764

Damn you Hurricane in 2005. You knocked my power out for two goddamn weeks.

2008-06-07 18:55:46

#12

HurricaИe: Banned; +877|6431|Washington DC

icecold2510 wrote:
Damn you Hurricane in 2005. You knocked my power out for two goddamn weeks.

that was my sister

2008-06-07 19:06:01

#13

Flecco: iPod is broken.; +1,048|7135|NT, like Mick Dundee

Hurri, I live in a town that gets its power from a alumina processing plant. If any of the boilers in the powerplant go down the town loses power. We don't get it back until the plant is fine again. Plant first, town second.

Kinda sucks. Anywhere between 5 and 20 blackouts a year. That's without a cyclone or anything hitting the town too.

Still, the mine and plant here are like 5% of Australia's national GDP.

Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.

2008-06-07 19:09:26

#14

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,993|7102|949

You should move to the West Coast. We just have earthquakes (and if you are like ATG, dirty mexicans).

2008-06-07 19:36:56

#15

HurricaИe: Banned; +877|6431|Washington DC

Flecco wrote:
Hurri, I live in a town that gets its power from a alumina processing plant. If any of the boilers in the powerplant go down the town loses power. We don't get it back until the plant is fine again. Plant first, town second.

Kinda sucks. Anywhere between 5 and 20 blackouts a year. That's without a cyclone or anything hitting the town too.

Still, the mine and plant here are like 5% of Australia's national GDP.

Sucks hope you guys get something better at some point in time. Or better yet, hope you move somewhere more modernized

@Ken, I AM a mexican (well, more like chilean/argentine... and even then, only a half-breed... the other half is canadian).

2008-06-07 19:38:07

#16

argo4: Stand and Deliver; +86|6403|United States

i live cose to dc and lost power for like 30 hours...that really sucked

2008-06-07 19:42:01

#17

Havok: Nymphomaniac Treatment Specialist; +302|7145|Florida, United States

I love HurricaNe's siblings. Charlie, Ivan, Francis, Jeanne, etc. They all love me so much that they let me miss school.

2008-06-07 20:02:02

#18

TimmmmaaaaH: Damn, I... had something for this; +725|6910|Brisbane, Australia

HurricaИe wrote:
Flecco wrote:
Hurri, I live in a town that gets its power from a alumina processing plant. If any of the boilers in the powerplant go down the town loses power. We don't get it back until the plant is fine again. Plant first, town second.

Kinda sucks. Anywhere between 5 and 20 blackouts a year. That's without a cyclone or anything hitting the town too.

Still, the mine and plant here are like 5% of Australia's national GDP.
Sucks hope you guys get something better at some point in time. Or better yet, hope you move somewhere more modernized

He doesn't live in any of our larger cities, btw

I don't even know what where he lives is called

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2008-06-07 20:15:39

#19

Nappy: Apprentice; +151|6699|NSW, Australia

ebug9 wrote:
The blackout affected Canada too. That was a bitch in 30+ degrees Celsius. Thank god I got to hang out by my pool.

lol at you thats just warm

2008-06-07 20:19:02

#20

HurricaИe: Banned; +877|6431|Washington DC

Nappy wrote:
ebug9 wrote:
The blackout affected Canada too. That was a bitch in 30+ degrees Celsius. Thank god I got to hang out by my pool.
lol at you thats just warm

gb2outback

2008-06-07 20:50:39

#21

RoosterCantrell: Goodbye :); +399|6950|Somewhere else

There's been a few times in Illinois where the power goes out for almost a week.

Power Lines are above ground for numerous reasons. Easier to fix, as opposed to finding the bad spot, dig it up and fix it. Above al you have to do is restring the line. Plus, underground you have to worry about waterproofing, cutting lines while digging, etc.

Plus, it's cheaper. That's the biggest reason.

2008-06-07 21:11:47

#22

argo4: Stand and Deliver; +86|6403|United States

i say, how hard is it to reconnect two wires to restore power ...even a retarded baby could do that ...heck, even you guys could do it, although it would be harder

2008-06-07 21:44:03

#23

DrunkFace: Germans did 911; +427|7151|Disaster Free Zone

Why don't they have underground power lines?
1. The cost of infrastructure.
2. Much harder to maintain.
3. Most of the lines where put up before we had suitable technology to place them underground and the costs to change it would be astronomical.
4. The only time I bet you or other people complain about the lines is when you have a black out, yet the extra taxes it would need to 'fix' everything would cause people to complain non stop.

I've had 2 blackout recently (last 3 months), One lasted about 4 hours and the other about an hour and half. But other then that I can't remember having a blackout for the previous 6-7 years and the time to fix the problems never takes more then like 6 hours.

Nappy wrote:
ebug9 wrote:
The blackout affected Canada too. That was a bitch in 30+ degrees Celsius. Thank god I got to hang out by my pool.
lol at you thats just warm

Yeah, when it starts pushing 40 you can start complaining about the heat.

On a related note, I can remember reading somewhere that in Germany you get to go home from school if the temperature gets above 28 (correct me if I'm wrong), yet I can remember sitting at school with no air-conditioning when it was 45 in the shade. And the hottest I can remember was when it reached 50, luckily I spent most of that day at work in air-conditioning earning $45 a hour... to pack shelves .

2008-06-07 21:46:26

#24

S.Lythberg: Mastermind; +429|6917|Chicago, IL

large high voltage lines are not well insulated, and would short out if buried

2008-06-07 22:10:28

#25

Zombie_Affair: Amputee's...BOOP; +78|6286|Fattest Country in the world.

A couple of nights ago I was watching a movie in my loungeroom when I heard the loudest Bang I've ever heard followed by a instant blackout around 5 seconds later. My instinct was to kill all the switches in the house, go outside with a torch and find out if a tree fell on the power lines. Phone and torch in hand, I went outside, turns out a transformer on the powerlines exploded. Nasty stuff. Scared the crap out of me.

Last edited by Zombie_Affair (2008-06-07 22:11:13)

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