Sometimes big storms translate to big power outages. That’s what happened here when the sky dumped more than 5 1/2 inches of rain over a short amount of time — accompanied by high winds, hail, and all the extras in Mother Nature’s purse. April showers bring May (and sometimes late April) flowers, after all.
At 5:00 PM, Perry called that he was leaving work and hoped to beat the storm. In the 10-minutes it took him to get here, the power went out… the garage door wouldn’t open… and he had to run around the house in the sideways rain to get in the main door. Then we sat for 5 hours in the dark wondering what the heck to do as our phone batteries were slowly dying!
REMC had over 2,000 customers without power.
While 5 hours without electricity felt like a long time, so many people were out much longer. My friend, Julie, in Scipio, got her power back on late morning — and those south of town were in the dark until early evening yesterday.
My experience after having both Duke Energy and REMC is that Duke doesn’t go out as often — but REMC is 100 times more responsive. While some were patient and understanding — others were confronting REMC’s social media poster asking if they would like to “loan a propane grill so the meat they had in their freezer didn’t go bad.”
REMC didn’t cause the storms, y’all.
It sucks to be without power… and it sucks to know you have food in the freezer that may thaw and ruin before it comes back on. But no matter how stressed you are, others who live around you are going through the same thing. It is what it is… with or without drama.
Now you know: The Swedish Navy spent 15 years and millions of dollars tracking what they believed were Russian submarines in their waters. In 1996, civilian scientists finally investigated the acoustic signals and discovered the “submarines” were actually just massive schools of herring farting.