Ongoing eletricity issues

[lillilah]

I hooked the computer up to the UPS/backup battery (I had tried previously with the monitor also, and that was too much), and it works fine. However, I have to remember that the battery is drained very quickly, so I can't expect it to handle the power going off and on and off and on for hours. I have to shut it off after the first outage to give the battery a chance to charge again.

If this keeps happening, I'll probably buy a UPS for the internet gateway/wifi, since it would be nice to not constantly have it going out. Other than that, all is well.

Comments

[soemand]

That’s crazy amount of power cuts that you need to plan at this level.

[lillilah]

My guess is that they have done a "good enough" job, in an effort to get it to the point where people _mostly_ have power. Since they started with over 1 million people without power and now there still are about 100,000, they still have a lot of work to do. I also think that it is going out when the wind blows really hard. Last night was more mild, so more power.