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zombiebatman t1_jdr9rls wrote

Hey, I had fun watching a movie on my laptop then reading my kindle by legit candle light. (but, yeah, thrilled my power is back on and that those people worked through the night)

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birdthemurse t1_jdrbw1v wrote

Definitely unsung heroes. Constant assess to electricity is way up there on the take for granted list. Maybe only behind clean water.

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Nyus t1_jdrdwrn wrote

14 hours?! Confused laugh in Penn Power speak. See you in a week, maybe?

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HomicidalHushPuppy OP t1_jdrjm8i wrote

Replying to Nyus (#2,372,652)

Lol I'm on West Penn, they're a little better about it, plus it was a 500+ customer outage with 3 more nearby, so it probably made sense from a resource-useage/efficiency standpoint to send one team out and knock 4 easy outages (they were all simple trees-on-wires issues) off the list.

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octropos t1_jdrlx9m wrote

Also, 10/10 for ya'll at those stoplights. People were very respectful and treated them like stop signs. I was very impressed. It's not our first rodeo apparently.

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Naa2016 t1_jdrm6mg wrote

Woof! The power was out at my job for like 2 hours... glad we didn't have to go a whole 14!

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FrogMasterX t1_jdrmdob wrote

IMO Pittsburgh power companies are pretty great at keeping services operating and restoring them when outages occur.

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2ndSonofa2ndSon t1_jdrmm62 wrote

Also the workers fixing the Xfinity internet, TV and phone in the Greensburg area. I hate the prices I pay but it’s all back up and running in 12 hours.

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AWrenchAndTwoNuts t1_jdrvns3 wrote

Replying to weavs13 (#2,374,500)

Ya the Monday evening estimate was pretty awesome. That would be more than 48 hours for us.

We also have electric hot water and the house is on well water. The natives are already getting restless, I can't imagine what another day of no heat or water will be like. Especially getting ready for school and work.

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AWrenchAndTwoNuts t1_jdrzezc wrote

Replying to weavs13 (#2,374,777)

Sigh......... I will have to ferry everyone to the grandparents later today for baths and showers. My wife and I both have staggered 10 hour days tomorrow and neither one of us work at a place where we can just call off either......... Well I mean we could but she does taxes and it's the busy season for our customers so while I could call off the only person we would be screwing over would be ourselves.

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gucci_gucci_gu t1_jdrzy8x wrote

Can you cut off power to the fascists while you’re up there?

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ehsteve69 t1_jds3wzo wrote

Shouts to Brett Kiesel and Casey Hampton

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stinky143 t1_jdsnox5 wrote

I’m in Gibsonia and my powers been off 23 hours with it not coming on until possibly 8 pm tomorrow. Thanks really sucks.

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lkoz590 t1_jdswf70 wrote

Legit. Idk what I'd do if Kenny suffers a career ending injury

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Curious-Principle689 t1_jdt7q4r wrote

26hours here... Duquesne Light said Monday by 8pm... I keep reporting the outage every 4hours... and the whole neighborhood is still out.. and we're not even on the outage map!!!!

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BakaSan77 t1_jdth4pr wrote

Ours came on at 4am in cranberry. Thank you

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AWrenchAndTwoNuts t1_jdtq5pf wrote

Replying to weavs13 (#2,374,511)

Ya we blew past 24 hours earlier today. They are apparently sticking to the Monday at 8pm thing pretty hard, we are still without power.

It's not like the pipes will freeze or anything but the house is at 51 degrees and we are heading into night number 2 without heat. Everyone is bundled up, I think every blanket in the house has been deployed at this point. Even that really ugly one that someone's great aunt gave us as a wedding gift 10 years ago.

Sorry Aunt Edith, even if we never loved the gift we certainly appreciate it now.

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leadfoot9 t1_jdvdbh2 wrote

Remember the brief moment a couple of years ago when we acknowledged that the people who make civilization run are more important than dudes in suits pushing piles of money around?

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