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My Archives: October 2005

Monday, October 31, 2005

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.

Posted by understudy @ 08:54 PM EST [Link]

Sunday, October 30, 2005

Well it looks like Florida Power and Light are finally coming into my neighborhood. Actually it was one of the out of state contractors. The lights are coming on but the brown outs are terrible. My generator which gives dirty power is cleaner than what I am getting now. I have unpluged some items but it looks like I may have lost a few of my electronic items from this. I think I am grateful that I have power back. Now If I could just get the UPSes to stop beeping.

Posted by understudy @ 07:43 PM EST [Link]

Okay lets see it is day seven after hurricane Wilma and I haven't calmed down. Read on to find out why I am still angry. [more]

Posted by understudy @ 06:05 PM EST [Link]

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