Bonnie Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 We have had no electricity here in Palo Alto, north of town, since about 2:30 this morning. Is this outage community-wide? Anyone know anything about the cause? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoSailors Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Got electricity in Brisas. Was out for an hour yesterday around noon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share Posted February 7, 2016 I understand the outage also extends at least to Jaramillo and Panamonte Estates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyS Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 OK in Volcancito. We had several short outages on Saturday, followed by a half-hour outage. Good old Union Fenosa. Will they ever get their act together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Anyone else notice there are some pretty high winds out there? Trees and lines get blown down causing interruptions to service. Hardly the suppliers fault, they do respond quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share Posted February 7, 2016 I expect trees and lines to come down during the windy season. But I don't expect it to take 10 hours to repair. Even if they had to wait until daylight, five hours seems like an inordinate amount of time. I also notice that UF does a minimum of tree trimming to help avoid such outages. All that said, I have to confess that its better than it was when we first came here, nine years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyS Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 (edited) 46 minutes ago, Keith Woolford said: Anyone else notice there are some pretty high winds out there? Trees and lines get blown down causing interruptions to service. Hardly the suppliers fault, they do respond quickly. Why does the power go out so often on clear, windless days? Would you consider 10 hours to fix an outage a quick response? Yes, it is the supplier's fault. Edited February 7, 2016 by JudyS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Whether an outage takes an hour or a day to restore depends on the severity of the problem and during the windy season there may be multiple issues to deal with simultaneously. People still drive into poles on clear windless days. Do you call the outages in yourself or wait for someone else to do so? After ten years of living in Costa Rica, I know what poor infrastructure and poor service is all about. Here it's far superior, not perfect, but constantly improving. In North America, where most of us came from, it was good but is steadily deteriorating. Folks were also complaining in town today about lack of Cableonda service on Superbowl day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyS Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 (edited) I always call them about outages. I don't wait for someone else to do it. If it is a weekday, I go down to the office. That often gets quicker results. I'm curious how people can view the Superbowl on Cable Onda. It is being broadcast on CBS, which CO doesn't have. Is it also on another network? Edited February 7, 2016 by JudyS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penny Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 The Superbowl was on several CableOnda channels but was in Spanish. You probably had to get CBS through the internet to see it in English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 When the game started, we couldn't get USTVNow at all and therefore couldn't get CBS. However, there's a CBS Sports app that I downloaded to Roku, and we watched that. It was good for a while, but started getting fuzzy and cutting out from time to time. USTVNow resumed service sometime around 7:30. (???) We went back and forth, depending on which was better. I went to bed about 3/4 of the way into the fourth quarter (at the insistence of the dogs) and watched the balance of the game on CSB Sports on my iPad. Reception was perfect there. It was a frustrating day trying to figure all this out. IPTV was out, USTVNow was out. You would think they could get their acts together in preparation for Super Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyS Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 We watched the first half on the CloudTV app. It was beautiful, HD, not freezing at all. But at halftime it froze and wouldn't come back. Maybe it would have, but I stopped trying after a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelyn Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Here's an article about country wide power outages that especially affected Boquete. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/strong-winds-cause-countrywide-power-outages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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