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Post by gipsy on Dec 29, 2023 13:18:49 GMT -6
The world goes dark?
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Post by papaof2 on Dec 29, 2023 20:55:16 GMT -6
If you don't have alternate lighting, heating, water, power...
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Post by feralferret on Dec 30, 2023 1:03:06 GMT -6
Do they have beavers there?
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Post by papaof2 on Dec 30, 2023 12:49:30 GMT -6
No beavers in metro Atlanta that I'm aware of (maybe the zoo?) but the hills of northeast GA might be a different story.
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Post by feralferret on Dec 30, 2023 18:39:58 GMT -6
When I worked out at LCAAP, there was a pair of beavers that dammed up a creek on the plant beside the road to the building where I worked. They were apparently trapped and moved and the dam removed after a few months. I wasn't expecting that in Missouri.
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Post by papaof2 on Jan 17, 2024 23:16:54 GMT -6
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Post by gipsy on Jan 18, 2024 8:36:01 GMT -6
Looks kinda like some that I get.
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Post by papaof2 on Jan 18, 2024 10:25:47 GMT -6
Since it's a power co-op, I'm technically part of the ownership so I should have a say in how money is spent on maintaining things. I don't think that's a good use of my money or the money of any other member of the co-op. Guess I need to save some printouts and take them to the next "owners' meeting" next October...
The map shows 8 outages and 15 meters out but the text shows 11 outages and 10 meters out. The web programmers must also work for the National Weather Service - where guesswork is a way of life...
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Post by gipsy on Jan 18, 2024 10:29:18 GMT -6
Sounds like a plan.
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Post by papaof2 on Jan 18, 2024 18:40:02 GMT -6
The power co-o's most recent update has two single meter outages with the legend: 2 outages 0 meters out
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Post by papaof2 on Jan 28, 2024 0:04:54 GMT -6
Our power co-op has one valid outage: 181 meters since 4:14PM on 1/27/2024. There's been rain and a little wind today but nothing earth-shaking and no thunderstorms. Just VERY poor repair times. www.jecarter.us/files/greystone-8-hours+.jpgTheir full outage map: greystonepower.com/current-outagesGeorgia Power has an outage in about the same place on their map: 205 meters out with a 3AM ERT. Possibly a shared outage? That single meter outage? It's currently at 16 days and 13+ hours...
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Post by papaof2 on Jan 28, 2024 4:39:51 GMT -6
Our power co-op's 181 meter outage is still there.
Georgia Power's outage near that location is now clear.
Our co-op's outage is now at 13+ hours and counting when the weather conditions are 44F, it's cloudy and the wind is at 11MPH (wind chill is 38F). Think maybe if I lived in that area I'd be making some signs to use when picketing the co-op's HQ during the day - and calling the local TV stations to let them know when I'd be there. Probably be even more effective if I have the sign as a sandwich board over my shoulders and I'm getting around using the walker (left over from back surgery 15 years ago). Doesn't matter whether the outage actually affects me - the image of an old man with grey beard and thinning grey hair picketing in the cold about lack of power restoration and moving via a walker should be all that's needed to get the proper public indignation stirred up ;-) You just need to know how to manipulate the media...
Maybe it's a good thing that I have multiple power backup options. If 181 meters are out for 13+ hours and it seems the power co-op isn't concerned, I might need the ability to provide my own power for multiple days...
I just did the monthly 10% discharge test on the battery bank and its current charge rate is 6.5 amps. The battery bank should be back at full charge in 8 to 10 hours and I have enough gasoline for several weeks of "better than camping out" power.
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Post by papaof2 on Jan 28, 2024 8:56:46 GMT -6
The 181 meter outage cleared about an hour after the previous post.
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Post by gipsy on Jan 28, 2024 14:16:57 GMT -6
Found the loose connection, did they.
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Post by techsar on Jan 28, 2024 20:05:00 GMT -6
I guess they found that automotive jumper cables only work for a quick fix
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Post by papaof2 on Feb 15, 2024 0:09:45 GMT -6
From Georgia Power's outage map, a vehicle accident in Farrar, GA has 848 meters out. If you don't know where that is, it's west of Godfrey, south of Newborn and it's just north of Kelly, which is just north of Shady Dale. If you don't live in that county, you probably have no idea where it is ;-) If it helps any, Farrar is about 70-80km southeast of Atlanta.
Another vehicle accident has 312 meters out and another vehicle accident near that one has 44 meters out. The location? West of Westside, north of Westgate and northeast of McEver. It's about 2km west of Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport.
Think of those directions as the modern version of the country boy's directions of "You go down this-a-way past where the old Potter place burned, then turn left where the big old oak tree was and then you turn right just before you get the the Smiths' farm." They are correct from the standpoint of the person giving them but they may not mean anything to the person receiving them.
How are you at giving directions?
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Post by feralferret on Feb 15, 2024 3:37:08 GMT -6
"How are you at giving directions?"
Well, I used to be a TV director many years ago, but I don't think you mean that kind of directions.
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Post by papaof2 on Feb 15, 2024 5:24:48 GMT -6
I'm reasonably sure that there are only a small number of people who can use maps. Our kids made maps from home to the school when they were in elementary school - they were close enough to walk - but I wonder if that's still a part of public school education... I know that there are some who only use Google maps and say "I never go that way because I can't get Google maps there" (a niece who is 50-ish and wonders at us having GPS units when she only needs the phone - if she stays on the well-traveled paths). There are still a lot of places that don't have much, if any, cell phone coverage. We just use the Garmin GPS units that work fine as long as they can see the sky - with no need for a cell tower. And yes, I update those maps regularly on the 8GB TF card I added. Just part of being prepared. Our preferred hospital and our doctors are saved on the GPS by name so someone else could get us there if needed - and the GPS is set to "Surface streets only". Possibly belt plus suspenders? True if the cell coverage is good where we happen to be. Otherwise the GPS is needed and I can read enough on the 7 inch screen to use that GPS without my glasses.
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Post by feralferret on Feb 15, 2024 6:13:18 GMT -6
I have a GPS in my car also (not built in). My phone is a flip phone that does NOT have built in GPS and does not run apps. It is a 4G phone I bought when forced to upgrade due to the ending of 3G coverage by my provider. I have a 32 GB TF card in mine and update the maps about every three or four months.
I used to get the delivery runs out in the boonies when I drove a truck for a lumber yard in Houston back in 79 & 80. They knew I could navigate by map and knew how to find my way back to the main road if the customer supplied often hand drawn map ended up being inaccurate. This was before cell phones and the two-way radio was usually out of range of the repeater on these runs.
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Post by papaof2 on Feb 15, 2024 11:39:19 GMT -6
We traveled with a semi-current US atlas and gas station maps of the individual states for a long time ;-)
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Post by papaof2 on Feb 16, 2024 16:37:22 GMT -6
The power co-op's outage page again has math errors a third grader could find and fix: www.jecarter.us/files/greystone-errors-16-feb-2024.jpgThe text has "7 Outages" and "272 Customers affected". My third grade arithmetic counts 4 outages and 275 meters out ("Customers affected").
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Post by gipsy on Feb 17, 2024 8:05:15 GMT -6
Whole lot of people didn't take their shoes off
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Post by papaof2 on Feb 20, 2024 0:10:56 GMT -6
The power providers are having a quiet night. Our co-op has zero meters out. The other co-op in the county has zero meters out. Georgia Power has ten single meter outages (out of 2.6 million meters). Haven't seen things that quiet in a long time.
Wonder what SHTF event will overtake them this week? ;-)
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Post by feralferret on Feb 20, 2024 2:15:01 GMT -6
Does make you wonder, doesn't it?
Evergy is also having a quiet night so far.
Active Outages 4 Total Customers Out 5 Total Customers Served 1,670,084
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Post by papaof2 on Mar 1, 2024 2:24:56 GMT -6
Georgia Power has a couple of interesting outages in downtown Atlanta:
One outage: Estimated Restoration Time (ERT): Mar 1, 2024, 4:45 AM Customers Affected 32 Outage Details An outage has been reported in your area. We are working to determine a restoration time.
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Outage in almost the same place on the next street over: Estimated Restoration Time (ERT): Mar 1, 2024, 11:00 AM Customers Affected 55 Outage Details A vehicle accident has caused an outage in your area. Most customers will be restored by the ERT shown.
I would guess that both outages are related to the vehicle accident, with the first group just needing some wire run, but the second group not getting power back until the damaged pole is replaced.
The accident? Near the intersection of 10th Street and Northside Drive.
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