re: Entergy has apparently just given up . Now without power for the third time since Feb 26

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The Inniswold area. February 26, last week and now. During a low power usage period without heavy demand. At this point, it just seems like most things in America are unreliable or broken.

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In 2020 we had a storm break a power pole in half and throw it in the street, ripping the lines down up and down the block. When they replaced it, they didn't use the right wiring I guess, because every time we had a super windy day/storm after that, the power would go out almost immediately. We finally figured out from reviewing security camera footage that every time the wind blew super hard in a certain direction, it was batting two of the lines against each other and sending up fireballs and blowing the fuse out on the transformer.

Every two weeks for the next nine months we lost power when the wind blew hard. Every time Entergy came out to fix it we showed them the video footage and asked them to fix it permanently, and they'd shrug and just replace the fuse.

So nine months into this nonsense, the wind knocks the power out again, and they send a supervisor and a trainee out to repair it. We show them the video footage and the supervisor realizes the wrong wiring was installed when the initial repair was made, and has a team come out that day to replace it. We haven't had an issue since.

But it took NINE MONTHS of losing power for 4 hours EVERY TWO WEEKS, and showing Entergy footage of wires exploding in fireballs, before someone finally stopped saying 'frick it not my job' and actually did something. And if we didn't have that video footage I don't know that they ever would have fixed it. They would have just kept coming out and replacing the fuse over and over without questioning why it was happening.