Posted by JML755 on March 10, 2017 at 05:14:02 from (97.78.165.130):
In Reply to: The power... posted by Dave H (MI) on March 09, 2017 at 19:11:06:
Never lost power at our home. Our house in St. Clair has no power yet. Since it's going down to the mid-teens tonite. I'm thinking of spending the night up there with the generator to keep the furnace on. Otherwise, I'll need to crawl under the house and drain the water lines. With temps right around 32 today, I figure I'm safe but don't want to trust 10-12 hrs of teens overnite and then find out I've ruined my instant hot water heater. :cry:
The thing that bugs me is that we've got the most reliable power in the world, 750,000 people lose power due to the most extensive wind storm in DTE's history, DTE says 90% will be back on by Sunday and people are STILL bad-mouthing the "big bad utility" for the inconvenience and how they should have anticipated this. :roll: Plus, when DTE DOES try to be proactive, comes around and cuts down trees near their power lines to prevent this sort of thing, people scream and holler about them "ruining the environment". I guess they just can't win with some people.
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