In the past 3 weeks, we've had 3 power outages, all occurring at night or during the evening. So, today for a change, we had our outage during the day. And again, it was just our house. This is getting really old. Anyway, the repair crews found a "ground fault" in the underground line, dug up that spot, and repaired it.
But, given that the underground line is 30 years old, I'm starting a pool as to when the next outage will be........
Wednesday (07/28) was noteable for being the first Wednesday in 2 weeks for which we did not have a fairly long (6 hrs or so) power outage. So, I thought our streak of power issues had ended.
But, it was just a false sense of security, and we experienced another outage last night (even though there were no storms or other obvious causes).
The "good news" is that it wasn't just us - our neighbors were affected too. Now I know that sounds a bit odd. But, the last two outages affected only our house (which is the last house on the line), and its a long way between us and the neighbors. That leaves a lot of above ground and underground utility lines to have problems between us and the neighbors. (And the underground line is very old.) Having had 2 recent problems, I was beginning to worry that we needed some major maintenance done. So, I was a bit relieved to find out the problem wasn't just with our lines this time!
Hopefully, we're done with power outages for a while.
