Last updated on July 1, 2026
So yesterday I get home and my garage door doesn’t work. Hrm. Power failure! Another one… It seems that there was a scheduled power outage that I wasn’t informed of. So that makes what, 8 hours in the past two weeks?
Well, I just got off of the phone with the DTE Ombudsman for my area. It seems that my area had the power pulled from it to keep from overloading (and probably burning out, I’d assume) equipment. Supposedly there is a new substation going online this weekend or next week. I rather hope that this new substation will keep power on like normal. Fortunately I’m going out of town this weekend with fade_the_fallen so I won’t be using much electricity. I’ll down the firewall, array, file server, throw the thermostat to 78 or 80, etc. Pretty much try to cut usage down to really close to zero.
Pictures of the trip should be available when I get back. I might even post while I’m there… Who knows…