I Feel Like Rodney Dangerfield

[Walt B]

I tell ya, I don't get no respect!

Our electricity went off at 10:00 this morning. I started wondering if it was "just me" or if anyone had called to report the outage. I searched the Waco and Falls County phone books and couldn't find my provider. so I called another provider and they gave me the name phone number of my provider, Oncor Electric.

Called them, but my phone number wasn't on file and I didn't know my meter number, so I talked to a nice lady. She recorded my phone number and told me the electricity would be back on before 1:00pm.

Called again at 3:30pm, used my phone number and got an automated message saying the power would be back on at 4:30pm.

When I called at 5:00pm I bet my wife that they would say the power would be on at 6:00pm. I was wrong! The recording said, basically, "Leave me alone, we'll fix it when we fix it!"

I tell ya, I don't get no respect.

The power came on at 6:30pm...I still have a gas can, fire wood, and the portable generator standing at the ready. 

Walt

[Perry]

We went through the same things a week or so ago. Just finished cooking supper on the campstove and was putting the dishes in the dishwasher when the power came on. 

[Walt B]

Actually, the temperature stayed just above freezing, and, except for the wood stove, it was the bees that helped us out. I had a hot plate in the workshop for melting wax, and the generator was for powering a vaccuum when collecting bees. So, the bees gave us some hot food and electric lights. 

Still, though, it was the first time I'd been blown off by a recording. 

Walt

[LazyBkpr]

When we lived in Maine we had a pretty nasty ice storm,, after the third day of no power thats all you got when you called.  A message that they were working 24 hours a day to fix the problem.
  two weeks later we were still running the generator.. power came on sometime in the night, and of course I didnt know it until I went out at 4 am to fill the tank on the generator. Flipped the switches shut the gen down and went back to bed for another hour.
   Still run that generator. Use it and a 100 ft cord for the bee vac!