[Vision2020] Local electricity off and on

[Gary Crabtree]

​I am very skeptical of those customers affected numbers.

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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Ron Force <ronforce at gmail.com> wrote:

> If your power's out, you can get on the Internet and...oh, wait.
>
> Those with power can go to Avista at:
>
> https://www.avistautilities.com/safety/outages/_layouts/avista/transactions/ViewOutages.aspx?map=1&active=1
>
> After the power comes back, you can see a list of outages:
>
> Customers AffectedReasonDate/Time ReportedCrew StatusEstimated
> Restoration TimeLast Updated37Equipment ProblemSep 02 9:52 PMAssignedSep
> 03 10:00 AM*Sep 03 8:00 AM10Under InvestigationSep 03 7:19 AMAssignedSep
> 03 10:15 AM*Sep 03 7:28 AM<5Under InvestigationSep 03 7:15 AMOn-siteSep
> 03 10:00 AM*Sep 03 7:59 AM
>
> *Total customers affected: 51Too bad it's not more informative, like
> "squirrel in transformer". *
>
> Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
>
>> What's the cause of this behavior?
>>
>> Several times during the last few days the local electricity has blinked
>> off and then back on again, staying off long enough to turn off computers,
>> cause the microwave oven to indicate PF (power failure), and re-set
>> electric clocks to 12:00 AM.  Some countermeasures are in place or
>> possible, including 9-volt backup batteries in clocks and UPSs
>> (uninterruptible power supplies) into which the computers are plugged.
>>
>> Aside from the annoyance at resetting devices, and the potential danger
>> of lost or scrambled computer data, there may well be more serious and
>> costly effects at other locations.  So, why is electricity delivery more
>> irregular recently?
>>
>>
>> Ken
>>
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