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10/31/2005 Archived Entry: "Power restored and oops"

Last night power was restored to my house. I was thrilled. No more generator. About an hour after they restored it. A phase dropped out. I didn't realize it because I was in bed. However waking up to a non working ac unit and no water pressure and several fried electronic devices gave me a clue. I called FP&L this morning and they entered into their vast database of never to be worked on tickets. I understand a little. I mean I am grateful to have power back but it wasn't exactly working power. When I got home from work one of the neighbors was in the same boat but he had seen a utlity truck and asked them if they could come back and take a look at the issue. They did. Took them about 20 minutes.

After power was restored I went and check through the houseload appliances. The water pump wasn't working properly. Somehow the pump working at weird voltages had caused the water line to lose it prime.
I spent about a half an hour getting the pump working again.

Somehow the restoration of power did as much damage to my electronics as the hurricane did to my house.