Romanfiend t1_j9s86bd wrote on February 24, 2023 at 4:32 AM

Does this happen a lot in that area? I am moving there in 6 months I was hoping for reliable infrastructure.

Snoo71538 t1_j9szr1l wrote on February 24, 2023 at 9:56 AM

Yep. Been in regent square for 4 years and have had my power go out for anywhere from 10 minutes to 24 hours every few months. Looks like my power came back at about 2am this time, so 3-4 hours out.

lift_heavy64 t1_j9v4i6l wrote on February 24, 2023 at 7:53 PM

Yea it happens all the fucking time in pittsburgh

Romanfiend t1_j9v54ow wrote on February 24, 2023 at 7:57 PM

Damn

lift_heavy64 t1_j9v7r2x wrote on February 24, 2023 at 8:14 PM

And don't listen to the yinzers saying "it's normal and happens everywhere." I've lived in multiple states and cities over the past ~15 years and it only happened with any regularity when I was in pittsburgh. The infrastructure in pittsburgh is embarrassing.

DonnyTheWalrus t1_j9sfm1o wrote on February 24, 2023 at 5:42 AM

This doesn't appear to be tree related (probably), but - there's a lot of trees here. Like, a lot. When a storm blows through there's definitely a higher chance of an outage than you might have in the average city.

But besides that I've never really had too much of a problem. With the insane summer temps the last few years there are times when it gets dicey, but not many outages. Nothing like Columbus (Ohio) where they had to do intentional blackouts last year.

Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_j9t1opi wrote on February 24, 2023 at 10:23 AM

Transformers have a finite life. They all eventually die. This happens everywhere.

DroningBrightnessAV OP t1_j9saxf5 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 4:56 AM

we haven't had the power go out for more than 20 min in the last couple years but when weather gets dicey it's almost expected that the power will fluctuate a bit.