02-25-2023, 09:14 PM
Rolando wrote:
Notice y'all did NOT lose power. I hope Newsome points that out to Texas!
There were some pretty large and long power outages in the SF Bay area this week, including one multi-day outage in Menlo Park that required shutting down a major freeway (10 lanes, 5 each direction) to re-string a damaged wire that crossed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5UpdTxkMFU
But unlike TX, we didn't have a supply problem, it was just weather damaged distribution problems.
I luckily didn't lose power this storm (I did in January), but I lost internet twice for long periods because a nearby area lost power and some of Comcast's equipment is powered by that, their backup batteries last for 3 hours and then we lose TV and Internet. Whenever I have a Comcast outage I first check PG&E to see if that nearby area has power. And if they don't it's very consistent that the PG&E outage started 3 hours before the Comcast outage.