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[This year, we’ve been hammered by bad weather, and this round is the 12th time I’ve been on generator power this year. ]

12x in one year? That seems like a lot. I’ve not encountered 12 power outages lasting more than minutes my entire life, and this covers serious hurricanes and tornadoes.

15 posted on 06/04/2024 8:55:15 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)

I've had a few in Idaho. One lasted almost 14 hours. The neighborhood transformer serving my house and 2 others failed. It was an "on the ground" with buried wiring type. It was 5 hours before the outage was identified as a failed transformer. From that point, it was a matter of finding a replacement and installing it. I've had a few outages that lasted over 5 hours. Enough to run my UPS devices down to a dead and unrecoverable battery. I have 2 UPS devices right now that didn't survive the last outage. The outage occurred during a "day trip". I was simply out of range to intervene.