# Fuck the fucking power outage. Fuck! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 12, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-fucking-power-outage-fuck/588747 "2011-07-12T14:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-fucking-power-outage-fuck/588747/41 "2011-07-14T09:09:41Z")
> [@TechFreak79](#): > > It would be great if everyone who was or has been without power for more than 24 hours, just banded together and didn’t pay their ComEd bill for two months. I think they would get the message. My guess is you’d just end up paying a bunch of reconnection fees after trying to go a month without power… ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-fucking-power-outage-fuck/588747/42 "2011-07-14T12:13:03Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > That’s what I was going to say. Loss of all vital utilities doesn’t mean the same thing to most people as it does to people here apparently. Dopers are a clever bunch though. They are probably just pissed that they had to drag out the old homemade bicycle AC generator and rig up an old Speak&Spell to be a satellite internet uplink. I can see how the hassle would tick someone off. I will be sure to check this board first in case of nuclear war for helpful tips. I have internet at work. Power came on last night around 915 though. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-fucking-power-outage-fuck/588747/43 "2011-07-14T12:19:41Z")
> [@TechFreak79](#): > > Supposedly, ComEd has all of these crews working to restore power, yet I have driven to nearly everywhere within a 30 mile radius of my home (trying to kill off boredom by staying out of my house) without seeing even one crew working. If there are so many crews out there, then where in the hell are they. I have been without power since Monday Morning @ around 8am, and they are telling us that they estimate they will have our power restored on Friday 7/15 by 12pm. WTF?!?! Nearly everyone in our town has power. The people across the street from us have power, in fact everyone on the opposite side of he street has power! My gf, who lives about 3/4 of a mile away, is without power also. ComEd is a joke. They always have been. They don’t have any real competition in the area, so why would they make any changes? It would be great if everyone who was or has been without power for more than 24 hours, just banded together and didn’t pay their ComEd bill for two months. I think they would get the message. I was outraged in this vein for about 15 minutes, feeling like a second-class citizen, until I realized it’s much more important for them to restore power to larger numbers of people first–meaning that the people-dense streets of Chicago were the first priority. As I live in Woodridge, we only had 74 people without power in the area, compared to \*hundreds of thousands \*in the city itself. Yes, it sucks and is monumentally depressing to go three or four days without power when others had theirs restored the same day of the outage. But given a choice between having my power put back on, and having it put back on in a densely populated area, I can wait a little longer. We also, not being electricians or employees of Com-Ed, have no idea how the lines were structured. It’s quite possible that they had to fix lines further up the food chain, first. You wouldn’t likely see any crews in your area until Friday. I saw several yesterday afternoon in my area, the same day power was restored. Also, they bumped up the original ETA on getting my power back by 26 hours–check and see if yours hasn’t been bumped up, too. That’s pretty good work. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-fucking-power-outage-fuck/588747/44 "2011-07-14T13:12:05Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > I was outraged in this vein for about 15 minutes, feeling like a second-class citizen, until I realized it’s much more important for them to restore power to larger numbers of people first–meaning that the people-dense streets of Chicago were the first priority. As I live in Woodridge, we only had 74 people without power in the area, compared to \*hundreds of thousands \*in the city itself. Yes, it sucks and is monumentally depressing to go three or four days without power when others had theirs restored the same day of the outage. But given a choice between having my power put back on, and having it put back on in a densely populated area, I can wait a little longer. I object. This reasonableness and lack of outrage is totally inappropriate for the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-fucking-power-outage-fuck/588747/45 "2011-07-14T13:37:55Z")
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