"jminer" (jminer)
06/22/2019 at 20:03 • Filed to: None
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"jminer" (jminer)
06/22/2019 at 20:03 • Filed to: None | 3
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I’ve been without power since about 230 this afternoon. It is warm and humid in St Louis today, hit 85 and stormed all morning which means my house is now humid and warming up unpleasantly.
My power company finally says it’ll be back up in an hour and it’s down because someone drove into a damn power pole!
Ah well - first world problems I suppose. Luckily it stays light late this time of year but I’m still going to gather candles and flashlights before it gets dark just in case.
Just Jeepin'
> jminer
06/22/2019 at 20:49 |
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A few years ago, I awoke in the wee hours to the sound of a massive explosion.
My first thought was that someone had just blown up my car. Looking out my front windows, I saw police cars along the road, which confused me more: if the explosion had just happened, why were the police already here?
It turned out the explosion was a transformer a few hundred feet from my property ; a drunk driver had hit the utility pole, and severed a line, which eventually thanks to water on the ground took out the transformer.
Anyway, one hell of a way to wake up at 2am. Very difficult to think coherently.
XJDano
> jminer
06/22/2019 at 21:18 |
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One benefit of being in a subdivision 15 years old, power lines are buried, transformers are on the ground in green boxes.
Then again I live in Suburbia. Next time I move will be for property.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> jminer
06/23/2019 at 00:08 |
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At a previous jobs one of my drivers backed his bus into the power pole outside of the office rather than take another lap around the airport to try it again . The power to the building had to be shut off because of the pole he knocked over , and that meant the big-ass switch at the power panel needed to be turned off . It hadn’t been touched in years, so when power was restored the contact on that main switch wasn’t very good due to corrosion on the two contacts that had now been separated and didn’t mate well when it was turned back on .
Someone complained of a burning electrical smell and I investigated. I burned my hand when I touched the panel, and almost immediately shut off power to the entire facility before it caught on fire and called our electrician . We were on a mobile generator for over a month whilst they tried to find parts to repair that main switch since it was ancient. Did I get any thanks for preventing the building burning down? Of course not...