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Old 02-10-2020, 10:08 AM   #48
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Originally Posted by bruinsfan View Post
Great area to live!

One bit of advise....please invest in a generator with a transfer switch that runs major appliances/heat/water pump or a whole-home generator if it's within your budget.

Power can be sporadic from Oct to March during wind/snow/ice storms and you don't want to be one of those people that move to a rural location and complain about power outages and restoration times.

The further you are from large "communities" the longer it takes the power utility to restore your power. They work according to the greatest amount of customers they can restore and if you live in an area that is sparsely populated, you'll be waiting a bit.

This is NOT a dig on the linemen who do great work, it's just a reality of living in paradise.

My spouse is a reliability engineer for the power company, her biggest complaint during outages is that people expect immediate results. The sad reality is she will deploy crews to your area to fix down lines and they will call back saying its 45 mph winds I am not getting into that bucket truck till it dies down... So you will wait until its A first safe for them to do so, and then B however long it takes for them to fix the problem, on top of C it depends on how many people are affected. If you are in the group of 30 people affected versus 3,000 you should expect a longer wait time.
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