Hi Everyone,
In yesterday’s blog I mentioned how the power went off on Thursday and the notice from hydro company that the power was going to be turned off between the hours of 9 am to 12 pm on Friday. I got the 9 am part right, but 12 pm was really 1 pm and the notice was from the hydro company, not the city. Sorry about that.
I was so focused on the power being out that I made a mistake when I wrote my blog. What can I say, I was tired. Tired or not I still questioned a few things. This is what I mean.
I understood that the electrical infrastructure was being updated. I was happy about that. It’s nice to know that the hydro company wants to upgrade things to better everyone’s quality of life. Power outages are a pain. In the last few years I have experienced one every few days in the summer. If the hydro company wants to prevent that from happening less often, I’m all for it.
Since I wanted to do as much work as possible I simply rescheduled my day. (This is all in yesterday’s blog. Here’s the link, http://arebelsrant.com/has-anyone-noticed-d/ ). After about six hours, I stopped working, checked the weather, and did the dishes. I turned everything off, shut everything down and got ready for a nap.
As I lay in bed I checked my cell phone. It was 9:15 am. I tried my bedside light and the light went on. When I woke up at about 12:15 pm, I did the same thing. Again the light went on. Thinking that the work had been done, I went on with my day which included yesterday’s blog.
But as I was typing I started thinking. Half way through yesterday’s blog, I went into the hallway of the apartment building and asked the first person I saw if the power was turned off. It wasn’t. Both of us were angry about this. Off I went to find the superintendent of the building.
Apparently, he said, the hydro company received SO many complaints about the power being turned off on a hot day of 30 degrees, that the workers were instructed to stop replacing the new transformer.
Hmmm. So people can’t live without hydro for four hours OR LESS with 23 hours notice to prevent them having one or more power outages, but they can live without power for days without notice. How does that work? (For anyone who doesn’t know, or forgot, I am referring to when a large portion of the North American grid went down 8 or 9 years ago.)
If anyone can explain that to me, I’m all ears. Because the only thing that I can come up with is this, when people have a right to complain that they didn’t receive 48 hours notice, they will. Am I right? I still don’t know.
And now that everyone knows that I’m open to explanations, could someone please explain to me how the replacing of the transformer went from being an emergency to being called off? If it was an emergency, then it would have been done right? Notice or no notice. In my mind, it wasn’t an emergency.
Since I believe it wasn’t an emergency, why did the hydro company decide to schedule the replacement of the transformer on the 31st of the month? That and the first of the month are usually days when people move into and out of apartments. And the grid they were trying to update encompasses a lot of apartment buildings. Some of the complaints were probably from people moving because their move didn’t gel with the hydro company’s decision. I get that.
But aren’t the people who work at the hydro company, you know the same people who connect and disconnect hydro for people who are moving supposed to have some idea of this? I mean, someone should have had their lights on. After all, it is the hydro company!
My grey matter is moving so my lights are on. If one or more people at the hydro company would have thought this through, then their lights would be on too, right?
Hello? Is anyone at home? If you are, please don’t be asleep at the (light) switch!
In my opinion, the hydro company should have seriously considered the peak moving dates. That was incompetence at its worst, or best, depending how you want to look at things.
That “mistake” cost them a lot of money in notices, labour, etc. But as I have said in a past blog, if everyone did their job right, half the country would be unemployed. (This can be found in, Going Postal? Here’s the link, http://arebelsrant.com/going-postal/ )
Honestly, I don’t care when the transformer gets replaced as long as I get some sort of notice. But if I hear one person complain that there was a power outage before the next scheduled time, or that the next time is on a hotter day, or whatever, I will do one of two things. I will either get away from them or give them earful!
Thank you for reading, A. Rebel’s Rant! ;D
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