Around 10:30 this morning, about 70 degrees out and not a cloud in the sky. (Ever so much better than the 40 degrees and loads of rain at the same time almost every day last week. But I digress.) So, naturally, it's time for *BOOM!* from someplace in the general direction of the transformer and Out! go the lights. No rain, no lightning, no trees taking lines out, no 100-degree-weather with air conditioners on maximum. Yes, it's time for one of Dominion Electric's favorite tricks: random power failures.
By the time I found my shoes and went out to the backyard to check, there was someone tramping through the yard, looking at the wire. I have to give them credit: Dominion Electric was already on the scene, and I hadn't yet called them to alert them to the problem. For that matter, neither had anyone else. So - hmmm - how did they know there was a problem? The easiest of answers: they caused it.
Another neighbor had complained that her lights dimmed for no apparent reason, so they came out and had her turn on everything in the house at once. That fried the line, which had some weak spots (perhaps related to Isabel last fall? no point in speculating, I suppose, although it's equally likely that this was a line that they installed after Isabel).
Took them about 2 hours to repair it. Wonder how long it'll be before the lights go out again?
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