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SCE Out(r)age
updated: Aug 09, 2012, 9:08 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

I live on the Riviera, near APS and Pedregosa. Electricity has been out for 12+ hours. We never got notification from SCE, nor did any of my residential neighbors. Major headache, as my wife works from home, food in the fridge going bad...etc. Ironically, I have a "smart" meter that did not inform me of this outage. 2 calls to SCE were useless. Sigh. I hope none of my neighbors have health issues affected by this. I do not blame the work crew. However, SCE management could not be more arrogant. Major communication fail, without remedy. Am thinking of buying a generator, and smashing the crap out of the smart meter. OK I jest about the meter!

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COMMENT 306613P	2012-08-09 10:13 PM
Thanks for the info - live a 1/2 mile away - all ok here. Hope your "power" is restored. " Good Service " is like a foreign word these days, perhaps due to deregulation.
SBALAX	2012-08-09 10:43 PM
Live less than half a mile from you. NO problems here. Why do you think it has anything to do with the "smart meter"?
COMMENT 306628	2012-08-10 06:28 AM
Did you pay your bill?
PEYTON'S GRANDMA	2012-08-10 06:35 AM
Could it have been a rolling blackout? SCE has warned we might have them due to the hot weather.
COMMENT 306632	2012-08-10 06:38 AM
They are replacing poles on APS for the El Encanto upgrade. Local businesses were told early in the week.
COMMENT 306636P	2012-08-10 06:47 AM
+1 on 632. Hard to miss the one-way traffic control all day yesterday on APS, multiple crane trucks, lots of guys in hard hats and day-glo vests. Check it out.
COMMENT 306637P	2012-08-10 06:47 AM
Pole replacement - power back at 9:15 pm. SCE did research after a call in the morning and found no record of a report to me or any neighbors warning of blackout. Unconscionable customer treatment.
FLICKA	2012-08-10 07:47 AM
My aunt lives on Mission Ridge, she got a huge card in the mail a week ago warning of the power being off from 7am-7pm yesterday (Thur)
COMMENT 306712	2012-08-10 08:36 AM
I work in Riviera Park, and was warned of the planned blackout last week.
COMMENT 306777	2012-08-10 09:52 AM
Isn't that Lower Riviera?
COMMENT 306901	2012-08-10 01:19 PM
Whenever I find myself getting all flustered about rotten service from the utilities I often find I'm at fault. Either I got the notice and disregarded it or I deleted the voicemail without listening to it. Now if only my memory didn't fail me at the most inconvenient times I might know what is going on around me. Getting old sucks!
COMMENT 306984	2012-08-10 03:50 PM
Another episode of "Can't Pin the Blame on the New Smart Meters".
COMMENT 307071	2012-08-10 06:30 PM
Get off my grid!
SPARKEY	2012-08-10 09:39 PM
How come no one tells SCE thank you for keeping the power on 99.9999999% of the time? Does anyone realize that they are usually working with infrastructure that is older than the employees working on the system? The only way to upgrade the system to keep it in working order for the next 80 years is to shut down the power for a few hours once or twice a year to perform basic repairs or upgrades.. Several months ago, I lost power for 23 hours. I wasn't on edhat whining about it, I know that it takes someone special to work on high voltage to keep my residence powered up the other 364 days a year. During the Gap Fire I lived on the side of the mountain that was burning and only lost power for 14 hours. That's impressive! Next time you go to work, think of your work in this respect: If you do it wrong, you will die; if you do it wrong lots of people may die, millions of dollars in equipment and information will be lost or destroyed and you must do it so that it will perform under the worst conditions man and nature will throw at it. Treat every day at work like this and you might get an idea what the employees at your local utility go through every day.
COMMENT 307380P	2012-08-11 06:39 PM
I work in IT where 5 9's of reliability is the goal 99.99999% uptime. When my co-workers whine, I remind them that no one ever writes SCE to thank them for reliable electric service. The phone don't ring unless something's broken - just the way it is in these lines of work. If you want kudos, you're in the wrong line of work.

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