In the San Mateo Times today:
It is amazing that in this most sophisticated country, we have a storm and 80,000 lights go out in our neck of the woods. Can we blame the eucs this time, the palm fronds, helium balloons, squirrels, water, etc. Does this happen in other "sophisticated" countries or don't they have trees and/or underground utilities?
Please report any Burlingame outages to Terry's Power Outage Report.
As many as 80,000 lose power in storm
Winter may have been on an early spring break for a couple of weeks, but it returned with a vengeance Monday, as a powerful storm blew through the Bay Area. It wasn't a cold storm, thanks to its tapping into a plume of subtropical moisture, and the winter has brought wetter storms, such as the one over New Year's. The main problem this time was the fierce wind, gusting in excess of 60 mph. Preliminary reports indicated as many as 80,000 customers in the Bay Area, most on the Peninsula, had lost power at one time or another, said Jana Schuering, a spokeswoman for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. About 110,000 lost power system-wide, she said.
It is amazing that in this most sophisticated country, we have a storm and 80,000 lights go out in our neck of the woods. Can we blame the eucs this time, the palm fronds, helium balloons, squirrels, water, etc. Does this happen in other "sophisticated" countries or don't they have trees and/or underground utilities?
Please report any Burlingame outages to Terry's Power Outage Report.
- Written by Fiona
We lost our power last night at about 7:00PM and it came back on at midnight. We live on Howard Avenue between Costa Rica and Occidental. I reported it on Terry's web site. We ended up going to Round Table and then going to bed early. I slept very well without the TV on before bed!
Posted by: Dan Conway | February 28, 2006 at 05:39 PM
Losing power is always a reminder that there is life without technology, albeit painful. This morning there was hail, what a hoot!
Posted by: Stephen Blair | February 28, 2006 at 05:44 PM
Keep chanting: Underground utilities, underground utilities, underground utilities...
Especially in the hills with the fire danger...
We saw the flash and fire from the wires hitting together last night over Daly City = 30,000 without power.
What was great: on upper-Adeline, no problems- thanks, Terri.
Posted by: Joanne | March 01, 2006 at 03:51 AM
My daughter and Abraham Lincoln had a lot in common last night. She and Ab did their homework by candle light.
When given lemons make lemonade. I positioned three candles in just the right spot and curled up with a good book. Acturally it was kinda relaxing.
I felt sorry for the guy, who showed up across the street in his truck at 4:17 am and got our power back on line.
I am sure he was tired, but I have to thank him and his co-workers for working long hours is really miserable conditions.
Thank you Terry, for everything you have done to improve our electical power.
Posted by: Rich Grogan | March 01, 2006 at 04:08 AM
PGE representatives are scheduled to report at the March 20, 2006, meeting of the Burlingame City Council about ongoing power reliability issues. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 501 Primrose Road. The public will be invited to comment.
To see the letter BULB sent to PGE on January 24 about power and customer service problems, please go to: http://www.terrynagel.com/main/page/359/
Please continue to report power outages by filling out a Power Outage Report on my Web site at http://www.terrynagel.com/main/page/370/ every time your lights go out, even for a couple of seconds. The only way we can track power reliability in Burlingame is by having accurate information. You can see the log of outages reported in Burlingame here: http://www.terrynagel.com/main/page/490/
Posted by: Terry Nagel | March 01, 2006 at 07:37 AM