Power Outage 2018

So we had a big thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. Lots of wind, rain, etc. The stuff that makes up a May thunderstorm...and we lost power. By all accounts it happened at 4:45 PM EDT. And right now, almost a full 23 hours later, we are still w/o power. You can imagine the happiness.

So what is going on? We had a massive power outage with Hurricane Sandy in October-November 2012. Afterwards, the promises of "we'll do what we can to upgrade the infrastructure and system" began. Which was absolute BS. In March 2018, a severe Nor'easter came through and lots and lots of people lost power (we did not). More of the same language from the power companies. Now, in mid-May, we get a storm and the power is gone again. And we are supposed to "be patient".

FYI - the estimate is it will be on by 11:30 PM on Thursday. That's 32 hours from now. Un-fucking-real.