Still powerless

[dvandom]

At about 10 this morning, the superintendent was going around turning off all the furnaces and hot water heaters, because the sudden spike in load every time they tried to get power back on caused it to crash again. Hopefully there will be power by the time I get home. In the meantime, since it's supposed to get to 40°F today and be sunny, I can't just leave my spoilables in the car, so I had to drag them into the office and cram them into our tiny fridge (the bigger fridge in the lounge is inaccessible, as a thesis defense is going on right now).

Edit: 1:30 PM, still no power. They're "trying things" according to the landlady.

Edit: 4:00 PM, still no power. They got it on for about 10-15 minutes, but it went out again. Worst case, I wait for sunset, when it'll be safe to use my car as a fridge again, to go home. And then come back to the office and find a sink in which to wash my hair. :)

Comments

[wistling.livejournal.com]

Hope you get power soon!

[loki-liesmith.livejournal.com]

Gah. The only time I've been in a situation like this during the winter, I was living on an Air Force base, and I think we lost power for about 10 minutes, since the base was one of those "HIGH PRIORITY" places on the restore power lists.

We lost power for over a week when the hurricane hit a few years back, which sucked, but it was in late summer/early fall, when it wasn't too hot/cold to be a huge issue. Still sucked, but wasn't a serious concern.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I suspect the local powerline repair efforts are more geared towards dealing with summer storms than winter ones. We tend to lose power several times each summer, but rarely for more than a few minutes...hours at worst. So they know how to deal with that. Ice, though, gives 'em problems. In part, I suspect, because so many more things are defaulted to be on in the winter, so load spikes are nastier.