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Yet another power outage in Central hpp. When we call Helco, we don't even get through to a live person. A recording says "Thank you for calling Helco. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please call again later."
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11-09-2022, 10:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2022, 10:36 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Power out in lower HPP too
From HELCO Twitter
1150a Waiakea Uka/Paradise Park/ Pahoa/Kapoho update: ~14038 customers without power. Crews are aware and responding. Mahalo for your patience. #BigIslandOutage
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Came back on about 15 minutes ago, just as I had finished hooking up the generator to run the house. Oh, well. Good practice, I guess.
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The outage happens few times a month ever since our meter was upgraded this year.
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No Iju. the outage was caused by an accident in Hakalau, not your meter upgrade.
Certainty will be the death of us.
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11-11-2022, 05:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2022, 05:24 PM by Chas.)
I'm pretty happy with the dependability of the electric here. In PA, I lived in a "modern" suburban area that had all the services that people complain about not having here. We would lose electricity at least 3 to 5 times a year. It was never for less than 4-6 hours, sometimes more than 8 hours.
I'm in lower HPP, and in the 2 years I've been here I've lost it only a couple of times, never for more than 4 hours, usually only for less than an hour.
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If my electricity went out that often I'd think about getting a temperature logger for my fridge!
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Every time the power goes out HPP or elsewhere, Hawaiian telcom internet in Orchidland goes out for at least an hour even if our power is fine.
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We have spectrum internet and solar power. When the grid goes down it takes only a moment for our solar to kick in but that's enough to boot the modem offline. I just turn it off and then back on and internet is back in about five minutes.
Certainty will be the death of us.
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Yeah, very happy to be off-grid. Even if I were on-grid I'd have a hybrid system.