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FirstEnergy: Not as smart as they want you to think that they think that you think they are
On April 27, at about 1:30 in the afternoon, a violent, hail-filled cold-front passed through town, knocking a tree branch onto a power line in a neighbor's backyard. It knocked a pole-top transformer out of commission and caused a hyper-local power outage - about a dozen homes … [Read more...] about FirstEnergy: Not as smart as they want you to think that they think that you think they are
School Days
True story. A few days ago, I was traveling on Cedar Road when I saw a group of kids rough-housing on the sidewalk. They were tussling along the tree lawn, seemingly unphased by how closely they were drifting into the street. As they shoved and pushed each other, smiles … [Read more...] about School Days
Life in the dark
The power has been off at my house and half the block - about 15 other houses - for more than 30 hours. The first wind storm - the brief one Wednesday afternoon - took down a large branch in a backyard somewhere down the block. The branch took down the high-power feeder line, … [Read more...] about Life in the dark
Finding A Chair
We recently renovated one of the rooms in our house--or maybe it would be better to say that we innovated to rethink something old into something new, because we basically did little more than change the purpose of the room by altering its contents. Out came the work-a-day … [Read more...] about Finding A Chair
