Another very hot day yesterday with no power.

[aviator]

I'm watching news and poof, power goes out, I tried my remote...mo luck, I look at my clock and see there is no power, so I went outside and notice the ground cable from the utility pole hanging on my neighbors backyard. Shit, that's bad, so I ran inside and flipped my main breakers off, called the power company and grabbed a tall glass of iced water and sat by the front of the house, a sequence of small explosions followed by a very large one, I though we were under attack by the Cubans or something.... look to the rear and see a lot of smoke and another cable down. this time behind my pool. So I called them again, "Hey you got a live cable down behind my pool, you'd better move" My lawn guy showed up, "Just do the front" I told him stay off the back, it was 1:30 pm they estimated completion by 9:30 pm. Four trucks showed up and could not do anything until the Ashplund people cut down my neighbor's trees, they made a mess on his yard and mine, they may come today to pick it all up. they had to run two new cables from one end of the block to the transformer behind my backyard, they were done by 5:30 pm, temperature inside the house a nice 80º. I couldn't run my generator due to the nature of the problem, they wouldn't let me. How did it happen? A neighbor two houses down told his lawn guy to trim a tree....the asshole cut the cable

[rto]

That sucks. Is the oxygen waster still alive?

[GBob01]

Got relatives over there in Lake Wales with no power right now, and I'm going through a big boomer of a storm here at my place now. Got a flashlight handy so I can find my lanterns if it knocks my power out.
Sucks living in the south in this heat when the power goes out.

[GimpyPaw]

Seems like you've been having a shit run of luck with the power supply this year. You kick a black cat into a mirror or something?

[merc]

Big Merc has stated the heat index the other
day was 112° . That's a bit on the warm side .


MER

[GBob01]

Heat index here been running 112 to 116 near daily here for a couple weeks. Yet, I choose to live in a swamp

[aviator]

Gimpy there is a black cat that likes my backyard, he/she likes to take naps under some of my plants, but it doesn't bother me as I don't have a dog anymore. Yes, heat index has been around 112º here too, "O2 waster" I guess you mean the tree guy? he piled up what he cut in front of the neighbor's house and took off quick. When I was told to stop doing all that work I called him and he never showed up so I got my son's guy.