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LSAClassOf2000

January 20th, 2016 at 2:22 PM ^

I want to throw this out there too - if you see something breaking on Twitter or elsewhere and it has been more than, say, 5 minutes since the item was posted, please don't post a thread about it because chances are  that you are far too late at this point. The rush to be first has happened twice in the span of a few hours and resulted in clusterfucks now so please check timestamps on things. 

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January 20th, 2016 at 2:38 PM ^

The suggestion is good.  However I have to call into question the hurdles something must pass to be considered a full-on clusterfuck.  It seems like that bar should be higher than a couple duplicate posts.

Also, like, real Australian people don't TYPE in Australian accents, dude.

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The Mad Hatter

January 20th, 2016 at 2:30 PM ^

You work for DTE don't you?  Since this is the designated random posting thread, do you have any idea why my power was out last night in Royal Oak?  About 1k were out from 630ish until around midnight.

An "equipment problem" is their official story, but I'm pretty sure it was aliens.

(and thanks for getting it back on.  it was pretty damn cold)

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The Mad Hatter

January 20th, 2016 at 2:51 PM ^

a couple of years ago.  I lost power over a dozen times in less than six months.  Sometimes for several hours or days.  And it was just the houses on my street, and only on my side of the street, so it was even more infuriating.

They finally admitted that they fucked something up when making a repair / upgrade and it was causing a fuse to blow every time there was the slightest hint of wind or rain. They did give me a $100 credit on my bill and it has been fine ever since.

Of course my generator wouldn't start last night.

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ItsGreatToBe

January 20th, 2016 at 4:46 PM ^

Lived on Catalpa next to the tracks for 7 years and we lost power about every 8 weeks on the regular. Went and had a generator override installed so my dinky gas-powered job could at least keep the furnace/AC running. Thankfully I never had to try to get that beast going in sub-zero weather though.
 

Edit: I actually did a cost-benefit analysis on having a standby genny installed. In a major suburb. In 2010. Fun times!

 

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LSAClassOf2000

January 20th, 2016 at 2:47 PM ^

The system which would actually let me see exactly what the calls in the area were is acting weird right now, but just based on the size of the outage, I bet it was fusing or some sectionalizing device (basically, devices which allow us to separate portions of circuits if we need to do so) that failed. Depending on where in Royal Oak, however, we do have older substations with smaller circuits - it could have been locked out at the substation too. 

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The Mad Hatter

January 20th, 2016 at 2:55 PM ^

I was just curious.  I posted above about some issues we had in the past, but things have been fine for a couple of years now.

It started as 600ish homes around 630, and then an additional 400+ went out a few hours later, so I'm assuming that the second group was turned off intentionally to make repairs possible.

And there is a really old substation near my house at 14 and Coolidge.  It was probably built in the 40's or before judging by the construction of the building.  It's actually pretty cool.

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