<div>Clearwater Power, a non-profit rural power cooperative (you pay a member fee to join the CO-OP), supplying electricity to many rural customers in Latah County, has power outages so commonly, expecting them once or twice a month is wise. Some of the outages are just long enough to leave the proverbial blinking VCR clock lights, other times much longer. Sometimes they call to alert customers for a planned outage to repair or upgrade service, often there is no notice. This is expected for rural electricity service, given the long distances with few customers per mile of power line, with long distances involved to service problems. If you want guaranteed 24/7 heat in the winter as a Clearwater Power customer, a supplement to electric heat is a must, given the number of and likelihood of power outages.</div>
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<div>Avista customers have far fewer power outages than Clearwater customers, as far as my experience.</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett, Clearwater Power customer</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/25/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bev Bafus</b> <<a href="mailto:bevbafus@verizon.net">bevbafus@verizon.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">all I know - is that since moving back to Moscow from Deary - we have<br>constant uninterrupted power. The power was ALWAYS going off in Deary -<br>
during the winter sometimes for 24-36 hours at a time.<br><br>Bev<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>]On Behalf Of Bill London<br>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 1:39 PM<br>To: Dan Carscallen; <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Power Outage?<br><br><br>When I mentioned to several friends who live out of this region about the<br>
number of power outages we experience here, the response I got was --<br>"something is wrong with your utility company."<br>They do not have any problems with regular outages like we do here in<br>Moscow.<br>Does anyone know any real data that compares Avista outages with other<br>
utilities?<br>BL<br><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div>