lostforgottensoul
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So now 3 hrs after the Duke Energry truck left (and about an hour before night fall), 2 trucks came that looked exactly like it (like a bucket truck) but it didn't say Duke Energy on the side like the first one. It looked like "Progessive". Which is what the company was before it was Duke. So, maybe more re-enforcements? They keep repositioning, going into one coridor, then backing out & going into the one beside it, then backing out and going back into the first one.
At least we have trucks here. Not sure why it took a f*cking week but at least we have trucks here! No one will ever convince me that a company is working tirelessly, through the night, pulling 20 hr shifts, have electric companies from Canada and other States to help, etc and I nor about 20 other people I've spoken to has seen a Duke Energy truck in the city anywhere nor any electric company truck. I would at least see them working in other locations but nope. I get they are loosing money as their profit is our energy consumption but I feel like they are either under staffed or somethibg went terribly wrong. They said on the news that they had thousands (or some large number) of employees in a safe spot just waiting to be deployed and then boom, nothing for a week, with zero damage here. And all the people I have spoken to also report no damage. It just feels utterly ridiculous that we had to wait a week. Or at least update us on why. Waiting on "parts" or whatever, ok but at least communicate with us. They did just the opposite and only yesterday setup a direct line to a rep. But before then you couldn't speak with someone. Why?
I feel like they are the example of whay not to do after a hurricane.
Anyway, still no power but crossing my fingers that they have a transformer in that truck or something that will soon get it on.
ETA: Ok, update. I walked down where the truck went in and there was a neighbor there on the edge where the truck went down (down a grassy area between the apartment building and a housing development). There are above ground lines there. All the rest from the street are underground. Anyway, there is a privacy fense that was taken down by the hurricane and an electric line by huge tree limbs. That's the issue. A down line.
Anyway, he said that there was a bunch of brush, down limbs and just follage issues there. The guy at 3:30 was just scoping it out. He told that neighbor he was sending a crew to clear the brush so the truck can go down. He did. About 30 mins later. Now this crew is here (a company from MO) and they are here until it's on. The other part is the neighbor heard some guy talking to another guy saying something about not having it on until Wed. But, I guess that was the brush guy as the neighbor said "the power guy said tonight and I'm going off what the power guy said".
This neighbor has been sleeping in his truck with the air on. That's how rough it is. For someone to keep their truck running all night? It's been rough. Fingers crossed.
They just came down my coridor so they look they they are progessing across. And I also saw another truck go down the road we live by. So yay! Fingers and toes crossed!
At least we have trucks here. Not sure why it took a f*cking week but at least we have trucks here! No one will ever convince me that a company is working tirelessly, through the night, pulling 20 hr shifts, have electric companies from Canada and other States to help, etc and I nor about 20 other people I've spoken to has seen a Duke Energy truck in the city anywhere nor any electric company truck. I would at least see them working in other locations but nope. I get they are loosing money as their profit is our energy consumption but I feel like they are either under staffed or somethibg went terribly wrong. They said on the news that they had thousands (or some large number) of employees in a safe spot just waiting to be deployed and then boom, nothing for a week, with zero damage here. And all the people I have spoken to also report no damage. It just feels utterly ridiculous that we had to wait a week. Or at least update us on why. Waiting on "parts" or whatever, ok but at least communicate with us. They did just the opposite and only yesterday setup a direct line to a rep. But before then you couldn't speak with someone. Why?
I feel like they are the example of whay not to do after a hurricane.
Anyway, still no power but crossing my fingers that they have a transformer in that truck or something that will soon get it on.
ETA: Ok, update. I walked down where the truck went in and there was a neighbor there on the edge where the truck went down (down a grassy area between the apartment building and a housing development). There are above ground lines there. All the rest from the street are underground. Anyway, there is a privacy fense that was taken down by the hurricane and an electric line by huge tree limbs. That's the issue. A down line.
Anyway, he said that there was a bunch of brush, down limbs and just follage issues there. The guy at 3:30 was just scoping it out. He told that neighbor he was sending a crew to clear the brush so the truck can go down. He did. About 30 mins later. Now this crew is here (a company from MO) and they are here until it's on. The other part is the neighbor heard some guy talking to another guy saying something about not having it on until Wed. But, I guess that was the brush guy as the neighbor said "the power guy said tonight and I'm going off what the power guy said".
This neighbor has been sleeping in his truck with the air on. That's how rough it is. For someone to keep their truck running all night? It's been rough. Fingers crossed.
They just came down my coridor so they look they they are progessing across. And I also saw another truck go down the road we live by. So yay! Fingers and toes crossed!
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