Originally posted by MarkJerling We don't get many power failures where the power is off for more than a few hours but a few years back we had a big winter storm that dropped lots of lines so power was out for around 3 days.
Our first Christmas in the new house we had 3 feet of snow. Heavy wet snow. There are 29 spans of wire from the county road to the house. All but a few were down, even a few broken poles I think.
We were not alone.
There were hundreds of thousands of power customers throughout the Pugetropolis Region out of power.
And we live on a dead end road.
Always the last to get back on.
Oh, and we couldn't get out either.
Private road and all.
It was cozy, oil lamps burning, fire silently licking fake logs, snow, lots and lots of snow. As an adult you can only have so much fun in the snow, if you haven't a snowmobile or something that will get across that much snow.
By the end of the second week we were starting to get frantic.The phone (landline) was also out, and without it, no internet. No internet and the micro cell that boosts out weak foothills signal doesn't work, so no cell service either.
An extreme occurrence, most outages are a day or three, sometimes a week, but living at the end of a private road does have its drawbacks.
Three days is easy.