Power Outage

Tuesday night I come home to discover that we have no power. Now, that is not an unusual thing to happen at our house. We are used to losing power, however not very often do we lose power in the winter.

Tula and I trekked out to check out what was going on & saw the Consumer's guys working on a pole near our neighbors house. Assuming they were taking care of it, we went on our merry way thinking we would have power again soon.

About 7:30 as we are eating our take out dinner by candle light (not even close to as romantic as it sounds... but it's better than the Wal-Mart dinner we had last time!), there is a knock on our door. After a few minutes of Phil talking to the Consumer's man & Tula hiding behind me in the hallway, we found out that we were the only house that did not have power. Apparently a transformer blew on the post that is in our yard next to the driveway. They replaced the transformer & there was now power to the pole, but we still didn't have power.

They checked the box on the side of our house & decided that some where between the pole by our driveway and the box on our house, there must be a problem with the line. So they spent about 3 more hours trying to determine where the issue was. Eventually they gave up and just ran a temporary line from the pole over the top of our house and down the side to hook into our box.

Anyways, long story short, we have a very long electric line running over top of our house & into our side yard and there is potential that they will have to dig up our driveway (as the original wire is buried underground) to find the real problem. Ah the joys of home ownership!

Here is where the wire hooks into our box on the side of the house. You can see the wire running right above the roof and connecting to the tree.

They police taped the area so that we would stay away... of course that makes Tula just more interested in that spot.