Posted on 07/12/2024 8:05:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Fair Oaks Ranch residents may want to brace themselves for a couple of sweaty evenings and place those backup batteries in their alarm clocks. CPS Energy is planning to cut power to some 1,300 homes in the Texas Hill Country town twice next week.
The shutdowns will run from 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. Monday, July 15, and Wednesday, July 17. According to a somewhat vague statement from the San Antonio power supplier, the planned outage will accompany “scheduled maintenance improvements” in Fair Oaks Ranch which is slated to “improve the electric reliability in the area.”
The planned outage is linked to a Texas Department of Transportation project which intersects with CPS Energy infrastructure.
tact with critical care customers and has reached out to all customer who will be impacted."
For context, that’s eight hours of power down time for the community that’s nestled between San Antonio and Boerne and sits about 15 minutes north of the Alamo City’s border. Fair Oaks Ranch is sometimes considered the start of the Texas Hill Country.
According to data from the National Weather Service, temperatures have dipped down to the mid 70s overnight. However, temperatures between the highs and lows have averaged at around 85 degrees for several days. So, it may still get quite warm during those overnight hours. On the bright side, the forecaster data shows it’s been a few degrees cooler over the past few days than it was this same time last year.
“CPS Energy will work to limit the timeframe of this outage as much as possible; however, the length of the outage is an estimate. Please consider leaving your refrigerator and freezer doors closed while your power is out, which will help to maintain the temperatures inside them,” the power supplier wrote in a statement. “For those traveling through the referred neighborhood, please be mindful of our workers' safety and Move Over or Slow Down to help keep them safe. In the case of inclement weather, this outage may be canceled and rescheduled.”
“CPS Energy cutting off power to Texas Hill Country town overnight”
Maybe they should start PAYING THEIR BILLS.
The median listing home price in Fair Oaks Ranch, TX was $762.5K in June 2024
City Public Service is going to piss off a lot of millionaires. Probably not a good idea.
If you weren’t being sarcastic, you should’ve been. See post 3.
I will tell you this. CPS has recently cut off electricity to more than a few apartment complexes in poor parts of town, where the owners and managers are the ones responsible for not paying the electricity bill.
You suspect right, I figured most my see my sarcasm as it’s really unlikely that EVERYONE in the town simply decided to stop paying for the electricity in the middle of a Texas summer.
Maybe they should start PAYING THEIR BILLS.
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That’s a silly thing to say.
You didn’t read the story, did you?
You might not assume that everyone sees that you’re being sarcastic and add /s.
As always, one is responsible for oneself.
Just ask George Washington, the John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
No, NOT storm damage NOR “regional rate refusals” (no pay). Planned major substation and cross-connect grid construction/additions.
“For those traveling through the referred neighborhood, please be mindful of our workers’ safety and Move Over...”
We have a substation near us that they are upgrading. One of the neighbors works there, and he said it is more of a replacement. So the old equipment is running everything while they build all of the new stuff. Even new wires on new (larger, taller) poles. And then at some point they will need to disconnect the old and connect the new equipment.
Although a nearby town IS calling for voluntary limits on use of electricity at peak hours to avoid problems. Where I live probably has the most electric cars per capita too. And by 2035 (only 11 years from now) you won’t be able to buy or register a new vehicle unless it is electric! (Washington State). The masses and politicians are nuts here.
I knew you were making a joke. That should have been obvious to everyone. Ignore the snark.
From time to time, it has to be done.
Times given are usually outside estimates, for the main work, and a buffer for minor problems...but we’ll see.
The avg temp at 11pm and avg at 5am would be useful info. The daily average is garbage for this story - meant to suggest suffering without reason.
I was on Georgia Power for many years. They have an excellent outage page and map. They consistently underpromise and overdeliver on outage power restoration. Power almost always comes back early, sometimes significantly so.
I am not sure why the article was written, or the tone of it by using certain wording like “vague”. It is power maintenance. Everyone has something like it happen now and again.
If your transformer on your utility pole blows, you have downtime. If some critter gets into something at a substation, you have downtime. Sometimes, things just have to be replaced.
I am sure that during July in Texas, there is no good time. Going to suck no matter what. This is life.
Typically a humid 95 to 75 on a Texas summer day.
I’m finding it difficult to believe that the air is still 95 at 11pm. It’s usually at least down to the upper 80s at that time (I’m originally from Houston, and my parents lived in San Antonio for several years). The slow ramp down to 75 at 5am I can easily believe.
It seems to me that the article’s author doesn’t have a clue as to what information here would actually be useful.
The utility is doing their best to minimize the impact.
I understand having to shut down to do maintenance but if you know it is coming why not do it around say October when the evening is a lot more tolerable.
We’re not too far from there and the ol’ family home didn’t have a/c until 20 years ago yet generations managed through summers when it was three digits. We got a notice with a bill to expect outages so they were warned. It is automatic to turn on the porch fan as we have a morning coffee but it was too chilly so turned it off this morning.
The average temp doesn’t matter for what the temp will actually be for those two nights. The broadcast says temps will be from about 80 at 11 pm to about 73 at 5 am. That’s not bad at all. Bet real Texans survive but maybe not the whiney CA invaders. If people are that pansy, drive 5 miles to a hotel out of the work area. Be thankful they’re getting improvements.
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