Ike was a beast!

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by Toby

FINALLY! After 15 days and 17 hours off the grid, we have power back on!

Congrats! Um, I guess. You know what I mean.

I'm just in a state of shock though. Why so long? And how did you make it?

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

Why so long? And how did you make it?

Our neighborhood just seemed to be well down the priority list for whatever reason. When there's 2.15 million customers without power it just takes time to get all the tree limbs cleared, poles and lines replaced as needed, etc.

We had ten TREES INC. crews in our neighborhood all day Sat and again on Sun morning. In addition to the hurricane damage they also cleared away all other branches that were over and into the power lines. That will prevent many future outages. They were also working on replacing two power poles south of us, between us and the nearest sub station. Once that was completed they flipped the switched.

We had a generator, so we had refigeration, coffee, Internet, etc. We just had to juggle cords depending on what we needed, but no A/C, no stove, oven or microwave (it blew the breaker). We ate lots of sammiches, cooked on the gas grill, and ate a fair number of meals out.

We were in far better shape than many, but it still got pretty old after about 3 days.