Update on the latest in the power saga:
No one from Entergy showed up this morning, so Grandpère got on the phone to wherever the customer service call center is located, most certainly not around here, to ask when they were coming to finish. In response to the call, the same serviceman whom I chewed out finally showed up. It seems that Entergy thought we were proceeding immediately to trench and lay the pipe to pass the line through. They were going to leave the transformer (which does not power our whole house) and not repair the line.
We do not even have an estimate on the price of laying the pipe, nor any idea when the work might be done. The cost may run into the thousands. We want the line repaired, even if the repair will only last a few months, until we work out how and when to have the pipe laid. Good thing we cleared that up. It could be weeks or months before that job is done. The serviceman left, but he said they will return. We shall see.
Thanks to Tobias in the comments for the title to this post.
UPDATE: The line is repaired, and we are once again empowered.
We are hoping for snow here in the Rockies-- nothing much yet but this weekend looks promising. G-kids want to ski and sled.
ReplyDeleteAnn, I hope for snow for the sake of the grandchildren who want to sled and ski.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to pay for the pipe-laying yourselves, do you? If it's not your fault, it seems Entergy should bear that cost...
ReplyDeleteWE, Entergy does not do trenching for pipes. That is part of the homebuilder's costs, and if not done when the house was built, then the homeowner pays. Entergy only runs the line. Of course, they have probably paid more than the trenching would cost in labor costs to repair the line four times.
ReplyDeleteGrandpère just popped in to tell me that the leak is where the most recent repair was done.
I hope against hope that you can get a line _in your yard_ separate from that idjit next door. Then when that line leaks, he's the one that has to suffer...alone! If you're going to have to pay thousands for the stupid pipe, what's another one?
ReplyDeleteSo they assumed you were fine without power until you did something to restore access to power?
ReplyDeleteHuh?
Must be in the air. My daughter, the Golden Child, is having a HORRIBLE time with a teacher. Simply a personality issue, nobody's fault, so I e-mail the school counselor to get her out of the class into another class in the same subject. This is done in a thrice, and all are happy.
Today G.C. learns she's been moved simply to another course taught by the same teacher! So...what did we go through that for?
Sometimes you have to treat people like computers, i.e.: perfect idiots.
I hope your power problems are solved more easily, and more quickly.
Rmj, your effort was for nothing. Pardon me, but it was the teacher, not the course.
ReplyDeleteWe are once again empowered, for now, but the plot thickens. The leak was not in the same place as the previous repair. It seems that one of the concrete fence posts settled onto the wire and damaged it. We and our neighbors had the fence put up together, so now I'm inclined to let them be about sharing the cost. I'm sick of the whole affair.
Susan, when we have the pipe laid, we'll have the line on our side of the property until we get to the back, where we will have to go on his property to connect to the box, although I'm just now thinking that we could ask Entergy to give us our own box.
(((Mean Mimi))) (((GP))).
ReplyDeleteI thought I had left a message yesterday, but either Entergy ate it or I have a partial power outage in my brain. Maybe both. Thinking of you! Grumble away, Queen of Mean. Who needs this ****? [Insert your favorite four-letter word.]
Jane, I believe you left a kind message at one of my other whiny posts. There have been entirely too many whiny posts. The end.
ReplyDeleteHey Mimi! Look! We're on YouTube! :-)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1TVOXdNkFo
ReplyDeleteWhat an ordeal!
ReplyDelete(((Mimi and GP)))
Being Peace, too funny. Thank you for the compliment, but at 74, ain't no way of saying that I'm middle aged. You? Fran? Maybe so.
ReplyDeleteFran, thanks. All of the power problems put our cable out, so now we must deal Charter, the worst cable company in the country. Oh joy!
and to think they call all these things "services"....8-(
ReplyDeleteMany Charter customers experienced outages Saturday. GP called and left a message with whomever telling them that our TV and internet service was out. When we arrived home this evening, we had a message from Charter telling us that our service was restored, but, indeed, it is not, no matter what they say.
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