Restoration is scheduled for 5:30pm so that would only be 4.5 hours. But of course we'll never know the reason for this outage.

Curious thing is that there's another similar size outage on the other side of town. What's up with that?

You are not alone!! No postcode envy... sings

They are testing to know which area will complain most?

Brownout issues and keeping full power at places like hospitals?

WinonWiefel Chives and I will sing along with you.

StereoNacht Normally I would have yelled loudly about it but it was already on the outage map. Tells me this may have been planned.

Fogwoman I suspect maybe repairs relating to last month's ice storm outage.

noooooooooooooo!

DevSpamNull Generator is up and running until our third world power grid can be repaired.

Well, you remember how some lanes of the George Washington Bridge got mysteriously closed in Fort Lee, New Jersey? Did your mayor have anything to do with Chris Christie?

They're really called Consumers Energy??

Their ad copy must just write itself: "Consumers Energy, Energy for Energy Consumers!"

if you got the consumers, we've got the energy

*....umm well, most of the time*

we didn't say we'd give it to them

DirkMcKeenan: Oh I hope not! shudder

How do you make coffee when the power is out?

dkronfeld: They used to be called "Consumers Power" and I think their slogan was "We put the power in your hands." Since then they've taken the power out of our hands by becoming

Consumers Energy, with the lame (trademarked) slogan "Count on Us". Yeah, right. But yeah, their ad copy is easy to write these days.

DevSpamNull: I"m beginning to envy some of the off-grid folks who are able to generate their own power. And even sell it back to "the man" when they get extra.

WinonWiefel: Well of course we just switch to suntea my dear.

Sun? Tea? Whats wrong with you guys?? I need coffee! Sun is optional, coffee is mandatory!

Well if you need coffee and have a little time (but no power)... How to Make Sun-brewed Coffee

But if you're in a hurry, I suggest you just crush a couple of Vivarin caffeine tablets and toss them into a Coke! Of course you could end up like this... gifs.com/CpB

I don't think that guy has ever been in Norway. Because that would be ice coffee in about 10 minutes there. And even here in Spain I think that would end up cold-ish even after 2 hours in the sun.

I DON'T TRUST THAT THING!

"We put power in your hands" was retired quietly after a legal case involving an unfortunately literally minded customer.

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Better.. but needs electricity..

Folgers and a bic!

solar, a wind turbine, and if i lived "out of town" a wood gasification/pellet boiler "outbuilding"