I don’t understand why they turned off the power,” she said. “No winds at all. And because of that, my father is gone. Blaming them is not going to bring my father back, unfortunately.”
Mardis, who had severe coronary artery atherosclerosis, breathed with the help of a nasal tube. His family, who had been told by power utility PG&E to expect the planned outage, had battery-operated backup machines ready for him to use — but the timing of the sudden shutoff, at 3:30 a.m., caught them unawares.
Or, for $190, an ISOCKET 3G with a built-in cell phone modem would have sent them a text message when the power goes out.
See A Power Outage Alarm is an Emergency Essential for other ideas.
If anybody here has a loved one who requires 100% reliable power, look into these solutions.
I'm tired of people playing the victim when they are either too lazy, unconcerned or stupid to take proper care and precautions and refuse to accept responsibility.
There are numerous battery back ups, UPS's of all different sizes that only kick in and emit an alarm when power is out and and they are reasonably priced.
My 88 year old mother is in poor health and wears First Alert device since being hospitalized due to a fall, the device requires a active phone line and hers requires power to a cable modem. SCE has frequent outages in her senior community so I purchased a UPS so that there is ALWAYS power to the modem and her phone line for the device and mind you this is a First Alert not a oxygen generator required to keep her alive.
No I have no sympathy for these people because to my mind they............just.........didn't......really care about daddy!