How Often Are You Without Power?

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How often do you have no power?

I never have electricity.
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I rarely have electricity.
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My electricity goes out daily and stays off for hours
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My electricity is intermittently failing all the time
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I'm lucky if it stays on for a week.
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Once a month
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6%
Only when there's a storm
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38%
Only when the electrical company is working on it... Or when they turn on all the lights in the meth lab next door... :disapproval:
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25%
Almost never.
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31%
 
Total votes : 16

How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby SnowyCheetah » March 20th, 2010, 2:12 am

Exactly what the title says. How often do you have no electricity? Anyone who chooses the first option is a boldfaced liar :p
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Re: How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby Taka » March 20th, 2010, 2:13 am

It goes out about once every 1 and 1/2 months. Quite annoying, btw xD
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Re: How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby SnowyCheetah » March 20th, 2010, 2:14 am

D: ouch!

BTW mine goes out sometimes durig storms. Used to go out randomly though.
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Re: How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby Simbadacub » March 20th, 2010, 2:15 am

in storms >.<
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Re: How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby Simbaholikov » March 20th, 2010, 2:24 am

My power like to go off randomly sometimes.
I think it's because too many things are using power in the house at one time, lol :)
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Re: How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby Panda-chan » March 20th, 2010, 2:33 am

My power only goes off after intense storms. Like the one on February 4th. Otherwise I can't think of another time it would go out. :)
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Re: How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby Simba » March 20th, 2010, 2:34 am

well, mine's not really a clear option for me in this poll. here it only goes out when 1-maintenance is done (usually they warn us with that), 2-someone steals the copper from the lines, 3- floods occur, 4- heavy wet snowfall occurs (so far that's been all of twice with 1997 and this past December), and 5- tree falls on a line (will usually knock the power out for several houses).

overall, it's usually just from maintenance, and it doesn't happen very often. fallen trees and copper theft probably make a close second.
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Re: How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby Cdot » March 20th, 2010, 2:36 am

[quote]Only when there's a storm[/quote]
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Re: How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby SnowyCheetah » March 20th, 2010, 4:47 am

Wow! copper theft :s
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Re: How Often Are You Without Power?

Postby SarabisMate » March 20th, 2010, 4:57 am

My lights hardly never go out...except for that one time in during hurricane Ike
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