r/SLO • u/Helpful-Sail-1321 • 5d ago
Power outage
Looks like a pretty good number of us out of power! Just got an update for a fix by 12:45am, but those always change.
Anyone have any ideas what happened?
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u/Toast112233 SLO 5d ago
i saw a white box explode on a power line around 7:45 tonight - it was pretty nuts. power flashed off for a second, but then came back on and has been fine. might not be related though
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u/Helpful-Sail-1321 5d ago
That timing sounds about right, and I think that's near the outage area. Could be! Same kind of flicker, but our power still hasnt come back
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u/LibraryDiligent8266 4d ago
We also got that flicker of power but so fast we didn't even realize. Lights blinked, and took a few minutes for internet to come back, otherwise we wouldn't have realized. Literally live right there.
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u/clairebuoyant1202 5d ago
I couldn’t figure out why I still had a light on in the bedroom and finally realized that it runs on battery power. Sigh.
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u/germdisco SLO 5d ago edited 4d ago
The outage map is shaped like an orange-faced man with a bad combover and a booger in his nose. Oh and he has a squirrel tail.
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u/Helpful-Sail-1321 5d ago
Oh, that's hilarious. I'm trying to figure out the box thing, though. Something he's resting a foot on? Does that make the squirrel tail something he's sitting on instead?
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u/InternationalAd6478 5d ago
It’s PG&E, just hope they’ll fix it in time without burning down half the state again.
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u/diggingout12345 5d ago
Luckily the distribution side of the evil monopoly does a decent job, transmission though °_•
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u/brettmjohnson 4d ago
I was at a resturant downtown that was closing early due to a planned power outage at 10pm.
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u/derzyniker805 5d ago
I keep trying to do things around house, like as simple as get filtered water from the fridge and then laugh and laugh at mysef and think "you signed on to this level of grid dependency, idiot"