I don’t know if there’s another thread about this already. There are probably several. But I wanted to bitch about this bullshit loudly and with reckless abandon, so I figured the Pit was more apropos than MPSIMS. Mods, feel free to move if you disagree.
Fuck you, Mother Nature. I was DRIVING (to work) when that windstorm hit, you cunty bint. You binty cunt. FUCK YOU. It only lasted for 15 minutes! Yes, it was unpleasant, but it didn’t prevent me from driving. HOW is it possible that you knocked out power to over 800,000 people?
I know Com-Ed is working hard to fix this shit; I read this morning that there were 700 individual crews dispatched to repair downed lines. But I’m still pissed that it isn’t fixed yet. Thank frog I have a gas range and water heater, otherwise I’d be unable to eat or take anything other than a cold shower (and I KNOW there are people with electric stoves and water heaters who are fucking worse off–sucks :(). There are probably old or disabled people who are going to DIE, because they have electric air conditioners.
I have a good LED flashlight so I can read, at least. But I’m internet-deprived. I can’t fucking sleep in mid-fucking-JULY without at LEAST a fan, though I prefer a cranked air conditioner. So I’m sleep-deprived, internet-deprived, and comfort-deprived. I already deal with insomnia on a regular basis (even in comfortable sleeping conditions where obstacles like sweating bullets and total silence are removed), and sleeping with a movie or tv show playing+white noise from a fan is the only way I can get to sleep, short of total exhaustion. I was staring at the inside of my eyelids for 2 hours before I finally passed out.
Yeah I know, inc threadshitters going wah fucking wah, first world problems. I have an entire freezer of food that’s slowly melting because I didn’t know the power was out and I went goddamn grocery shopping on my way home. So fuck you fucking threadshitting binticunts right in the fucking ear. Even more, fuck the assholes across the street from me who still have power.
You know what else? Fuck you Mediacomm! Power’s been back on for a day and a half and I still gots no fucking internet! I bought Portal 2. I’ve got free time in my evenings this week and this week only. I can’t get my fucking game because my internet doesn’t fucking work!
And fuck you Mediacomm customer service! After sitting on hold for 15 minutes I’m told that you can’t do anything and that you’ll send out a technician - in 8 days! EIGHT DAYS! But don’t worry, you tell, it’ll be free of charge if it’s your fault. It better be fucking free. In fact, I’d better see a refund for the week and a half I’m paying for internet and not getting it.
And then, you have the gall to try and sell me on a digital phone service?!?!? Your internet doesn’t work! Why would I want your crappy phone service?
Fuckers. If I don’t have internet by lunch time, I’m switching to DSL.
Yeah, and fuck you Clear, your internet access is working just fine. Wait, never mind.
But yeah, Mother Nature should give a little more warning. I was out walking the dog when that hit. I almost got hit by a falling branch and got soaked thoroughly.
It’s amazing how much we take electricity for granted. It was out at my place for only two hours one night last summer, but those were a miserable two hours. In the summer of 2002 it went out every Friday from about 10am to 5pm. That would have been fine if I had a job, but I was unemployed.
The weirdest was a few years ago on the night before I went on vacation. I decided to cook some crab legs but they smelled a little gamey (this was during a heat wave and I think the grocer was having refrigeration problems), so I went out for pizza instead. I left the crab legs in my fridge to deal with when I came back.
I had a nice week-long vacation. But my apartment (and thus my fridge) lost power for two days. It took me six months to get that smell out!
I don’t know if we’re talking about the same storm or not. It hit us at about 4 AM Monday. My wife kicked me out of bed and made me pull the kids toys in out of the back yard. We had 60 mph straight line winds and a ton of rain. I was literally soaked from being out for all of 15 secs. It was crazy how bright it was outside - pretty much constant lighting.
I’m not sure if it was the same storm, I’m not sure how far it traveled nor where you are. This one hit the midwest at approx 8am CST, and ended about 15 minutes later.
fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff :mad::mad::mad::mad: this is ruining my whole week! I saw a news notice somewhere that Com-Ed is “hoping” to have 90% of people’s power restored by Thursday night. Not soon enough to save my frozen pizzas, motherfuckers. And if I’m not in that 90%, I’m going to consider checking myself into the loony bin. They have a/c, you see.
I’m probably going to chillax at work past my shift today. Suck up some free air conditioning and post to the Dope, maybe do some reading (all I have on hand is a Dan Brown book, but it’s better than nothing). The only thing I won’t be able to do at work that I could do at home tonight is smoke indoors, and the ability to browse the internet alone is > that.
How right you are! Given that it wasn’t mentioned in my original post, and was a mere postscript to a reply I made, and the fact that WoW is more important to me than food and sleep, it must be the cornerstone of my rage.
Aren’t you in Chicagoland? I don’t know. I lived there for seven years without AC. Better to have the power outage in the summer than the winter - AC is a lot less important than heat.
The electric company in suburban Maryland is epically terrible, so we’ve had at least one lengthy power loss pretty much every year for the past 8 or 9 years. I’ve gotten to the point where the most annoying thing about the power outages is my neighbors ranting about how terrible it is to live without electricity for a day or two.
Pepco? Yup. If we don’t have at least 4 outages a year lasting several hours and one lasting more than a day, it’s a good year.
I watched the second half of the World Cup final in a bar last summer because our power went out for no reason at halftime. About a month later, one thunderstorm knocked out power to 250,000 people and about 70% of the traffic lights in Montgomery County went dark, which caused a 30-minute commute to take 2.5 hours. They didn’t get everyone back on for 5 days, at which point my apartment building (which had somehow stayed on through the mess) went out for 27 hours because a power line randomly fell on the nearby Metro tracks and a transformer blew. Supposedly the state legislature is investigating just how bad Pepco sucks, but I haven’t heard anything come of it.
Beware when the power comes back on. In the Great Blackout of 2003 my neighbors had driven to their cottage where they had a generator. Unfortunately they had been cooking when the blackout struck and although they had moved the pots off the stove they had not turned OFF the stove. About 4 hours after power was restored the fire trucks arrived, but not in time to save much. Since no one was there the people across the street were the first to notice the flames through the window and they lost their entire house. Was a close call for the houses on either side of them too.
I spent the night at a hotel last night due to the power outage, and now it’s back on at my place. My two-year-old liked the adventure. I was confused a couple of times when seeing something saying “Chicago” - my brain couldn’t grok that I was still basically home after I had driven a short distance and was staying in a hotel. Had a nice dinner at the hotel and found a new local beer, so all in all it wasn’t too bad of an experience.
Anyone have a generator? I’m going to look into one, not sure how much expense/hassle they are though.
The last two storms that took out power here have been terrible. Yesterday’s had 80+ mph winds. Meanwhile ComEd got crews from as far as Pennsylvania to help fix everything, and had over half the out customers (870k) turned on by this morning. ComEd is working hard here; fuck nature.
Over half the com-ed customers already have power back? Motherfuckers. Ours is still out, 32 hours now. They can’t even give us an ETA, for crying out loud. HOW can there be no ETA? Does that mean they don’t even know the extent of the damage yet? Fuck my mother in the asshole.
Moonlitherial, our stove is gas so I’m not worried about the house burning down. I used it to cook a proper dinner yesterday, was kinda fun (chicken and fettuccine with vodka sauce). I did unplug my power strip from the wall, though, in case of possible surges while they’re working on the lines.
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