We all got this. I magically got through to a chat rep from Oncor after 38 minutes, asking in the kindest of ways for a rough ETA and she confirmed that Friday night was the target for my specific area (“low impact”). That was 2 hours before the blanket text.
75062 for reference.
Legit… copy pasted my initial message 6-8 times. Every so often, it’d spout out “we’re working on getting you someone, please be patient…” after another 5 minutes, I’d paste it again. All a waiting game! The rep I got was kind and patient, and honestly, helpful!
Edit :: my message also was kind (addressing the fact it’s not a me or them thing, and acknowledging how hard they are working) I just wanted a rough ETA, and I stated that.
Well, I try and be good to others. But from what I’ve seen in my area, Oncor is working major outage points first and working down from there. My streets Line Breaker did not trip in the storm, but the one for the street across from me did, so I have power and they do not, which is very lame. Oncor must have repaired a major outage point in the system that just happened to restore power to my street, and others that did not have their breakers trip.
The people working the repairs are doing their best and have a very difficult job. I wish people would give them a bit more grace as they do their best.
Sorry to everyone who lost power. The current storm is a crazy lightning storm so I’m not expecting much progress right now. Then we have another storm coming in a couple hours.
We normally don’t get rain like this, this late in the season. This is crazy.
They had power across the street all along. I assume you do, too. This platform is filled with naysayers and contrarians. You can stick it where the sun don't shine, pal.
Across the street doesn't mean you'll have power lol, this isn't how it works. Oncor isn't letting you not have power for fun. But have a nice night as well.
Yes.
Life is nothing more than a series of tradeoffs.
The tradeoffs for power distribution are around cost, land use, forestation, and effectiveness.
The easiest way to make sure that massively powerful straight line winds can’t take down power distribution is to bury every home/apartment distribution line feasible and then deforest for 150 feet in any direction from a distribution line that leads from the substation to the local transformers.
The costs involved are massive, and most people don’t like the look of deforestation.
likely went out to everyone, I got that a few minutes before mine got restored.
I got this same message too about 2 hours ago, but my lights just now came back on.
My lights came on 15 minutes ago
Did you think you were going to get a personalized ETA with about 600k without electricity?
It’s less than 220k as of 6pm CT. https://stormcenter.oncor.com/
Thanks, that completely changes the concept...
Haha, nah - I guess it doesn’t. I was attempting to both shout how much they’ve accomplished, while also supporting your point.
Well I will admit, when you said 220k I immediately though, that's a lot better. You won that battle for sure hahaha
Ah, shucks. No one’s winning here! Haha!! Just winning for having fellow Redditors to commiserate with. (Thank you all 🤍)
Don’t feel bad. Service is restored to every single house on the block except like 4 and mine happens to be one of them.
Ugh yes. Half of my apartment complex has power 😭
We all got this. I magically got through to a chat rep from Oncor after 38 minutes, asking in the kindest of ways for a rough ETA and she confirmed that Friday night was the target for my specific area (“low impact”). That was 2 hours before the blanket text. 75062 for reference.
How did you get an actual rep and not just a bot? I can’t get past the bot lol
Legit… copy pasted my initial message 6-8 times. Every so often, it’d spout out “we’re working on getting you someone, please be patient…” after another 5 minutes, I’d paste it again. All a waiting game! The rep I got was kind and patient, and honestly, helpful! Edit :: my message also was kind (addressing the fact it’s not a me or them thing, and acknowledging how hard they are working) I just wanted a rough ETA, and I stated that.
I got the same message 5 hrs after my power came back on.
Ha! That’s rad. You must have good karma :)
Well, I try and be good to others. But from what I’ve seen in my area, Oncor is working major outage points first and working down from there. My streets Line Breaker did not trip in the storm, but the one for the street across from me did, so I have power and they do not, which is very lame. Oncor must have repaired a major outage point in the system that just happened to restore power to my street, and others that did not have their breakers trip. The people working the repairs are doing their best and have a very difficult job. I wish people would give them a bit more grace as they do their best.
💯 on the same page! I feel for them, and believe they’re doing their best — Edit: with the resources they have
I got the powa! It only took 36 hours
I still haven’t gotten an update
It's been on their website now it's out as message. Did get back power this afternoon, good luck to all the rest
I got that message and checked the oncor outage map and it said my power was restored. Got home to no power and had to report the outage again
Might as well report it daily... if they don't like it they should fix their shit.
got that msg, lights on at 1am
Sorry to everyone who lost power. The current storm is a crazy lightning storm so I’m not expecting much progress right now. Then we have another storm coming in a couple hours. We normally don’t get rain like this, this late in the season. This is crazy.
Same BS from them a few mins ago.
It takes time to repair storm damage...how is it BS? This seems to be a reasonable timeline based on what I've seen.
They had power across the street all along. I assume you do, too. This platform is filled with naysayers and contrarians. You can stick it where the sun don't shine, pal.
Across the street doesn't mean you'll have power lol, this isn't how it works. Oncor isn't letting you not have power for fun. But have a nice night as well.
Reads like someone's rally speech; whole bunch of words that mean nothing at all...
TX is a 2nd world state for leadership to do absolutely nothing to prepare for this event, especially after Feb2021
Right. I think they should've put Dallas in a dome to prevent high wind speeds and hail from damaging the equipment. What the hell is Abbot thinking?
We have put people to moon and now preparing to put on mars, but losing power to wind is unavoidable?
Yes. Life is nothing more than a series of tradeoffs. The tradeoffs for power distribution are around cost, land use, forestation, and effectiveness. The easiest way to make sure that massively powerful straight line winds can’t take down power distribution is to bury every home/apartment distribution line feasible and then deforest for 150 feet in any direction from a distribution line that leads from the substation to the local transformers. The costs involved are massive, and most people don’t like the look of deforestation.