Over the past three days, Chelco has been upgrading its electric services and therefor working on the power lines. During this work, the Blue Mountain Beach area has lost power for extended periods of time. Chelco has now made phone calls apologizing for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Has the power outages negatively affected you in any way? If so, please respond here.
As a business owner in the perishable food business, it has certainly harmed my business and cost me a great deal of money and loss of product as well as shorting out one of my coolers costing me a repair bill for new parts and labor. I was talking with several restaurant owners in our vacinity that have losts several seatings for two days and some for three days costing them thousands of dollars.
I also spoke with a single mother this morning who said the power surges fried her houshold refrigerator after she had just gone grocery shoppng. She lost over $300.00 worth of food and is now waiting on a repair on a weekend.
If you have any similar stories please share them.
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6Beach Lover
just alot of inconvenience without ac and tv for a hour or so here and there.
So sorry to hear about the real problems that you all are having. It looks like they should be held accountable for these costs. They would certainly charge you for any costs that they were out.
So sorry to hear about the real problems that you all are having. It looks like they should be held accountable for these costs. They would certainly charge you for any costs that they were out.
SoWal Expert
2 outages in the last 2 days.:angry:
Beach Fanatic
Outages are going to happen from time to time, and there have been FAR fewer outages in the past few years than there have historically been. I remember losing power in the '70s and '80s over 4th of July, because all of out out-of-town owners would all show up and turn on their A/C at one time and overload us. 
But it was very rude to be walking up to my front porch on Friday night, after having driven 500 miles, and everything go dark as I'm about to put my key in the door. :angry: And equally rude to immediately hear a much wealthier neighbor's generator kick in.
Fortunately, other than that, it wasn't out long enough to cause us to lose anything. None of the clocks in the house agree now, but we are lucky.
But it was very rude to be walking up to my front porch on Friday night, after having driven 500 miles, and everything go dark as I'm about to put my key in the door. :angry: And equally rude to immediately hear a much wealthier neighbor's generator kick in.
Fortunately, other than that, it wasn't out long enough to cause us to lose anything. None of the clocks in the house agree now, but we are lucky.Edited
Skunky
Over the past three days, Chelco has been upgrading its electric services and therefor working on the power lines. During this work, the Blue Mountain Beach area has lost power for extended periods of time. Chelco has now made phone calls apologizing for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Has the power outages negatively affected you in any way? If so, please respond here.
As a business owner in the perishable food business, it has certainly harmed my business and cost me a great deal of money and loss of product as well as shorting out one of my coolers costing me a repair bill for new parts and labor. I was talking with several restaurant owners in our vacinity that have losts several seatings for two days and some for three days costing them thousands of dollars.
I also spoke with a single mother this morning who said the power surges fried her houshold refrigerator after she had just gone grocery shoppng. She lost over $300.00 worth of food and is now waiting on a repair on a weekend.
If you have any similar stories please share them.
Do you have business interruption insurance, and if so, is this sort of thing covered? All business owners here might look into this type of insurance anyway as a good sized hurricane will shut down an operation for quite a while.
SWGB
I'm just curious as to why Friday night is prime time to upgrade power lines. Wouldn't this be safer in the day time? I understand the temperature issue, but it's pretty much an uber pain. Thank god for grills and inverters.
Beach FanaticAuthor
I guess my frustration over these outages was the fact that they shut the power off intentionally. In my opinion, they should have notified the residents and business owners in the vacinity before turning off the power as opposed to two days later leaving a voice mail apology.
Cafe Tango lost two seatings and Blue Orleans lost two nights worth of business.
I know power outages happen during storms and that can be expected, however intentional shut offs should require prior notification.
Cafe Tango lost two seatings and Blue Orleans lost two nights worth of business.
I know power outages happen during storms and that can be expected, however intentional shut offs should require prior notification.
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