We live in an area with lots of outages due to trees coming down in storms, but we rarely lose power - we think we must be on the same system as a nearby small hospital. We can go online and see a map that shows outages, and if you have no power but your area isn’t on the map then you can call to tell them. Unfortunately, we lose water more often than we lose power. When we lose water, we call and report the outage. Sometimes I check the local facebook group first to see if somebody else has reported it and then posted about it. Sometimes when I call I am told that they are doing maintenance and expect it to be back at a certain time. Other times, they have no idea where the leak is and they have to send trucks out to look for water gushing into the road and wait for more people to report it to narrow down the possible locations. Given the choice, I’d rather have a power outage than a water outage.
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