Hi everyone,
In case you haven't heard, Basement and Part-Time have been down since Saturday due to a power failure.
We got hit with a very strong wind and snowstorm. Several trees fell and took out power lines. Over 100K power customers were affected.
Our neighbors on either side had very tall trees fall. We were lucky to have been spared. Some homes have been damaged on our street.
It also was very cold with temperatures dropping into the teens. Our house temperature dropped into the 30s.
Power was restored at 4pm PT today. The house right now is still warming up to our usual temperature of 70 degrees.
Our Internet is not back yet. I did not get an estimate from Xfinity when I reported. Perhaps some of their cable lines are down. I just have spotty cellular service.
Bad weather returns tomorrow. So there may not be any Internet tomorrow either. At this point, I just hope we keep our power on tomorrow too.
I will let you all know when we are back online.
-JP
Internet continues to be unstable over here. It was down overnight then went down around 11am PT today. It's back as of 3:15pm PT. As I have been saying, if you cannot connect to the Basement or Part-Time, it's due to Xfinity working on their network. Hopefully they will finish their work soon. There's still plenty of down lines and trees that are awaiting clean up.
-JP
Internet went out at around 9am this morning. It appears to be back now (as of 9:35am). Hopefully it stays up for good now, but it could possibly go down again soon. There are still Xfinity outages in the area due to the bad weather we had.
-JP
Our power went out briefly today. Others in the area are losing power due to freezing rain. Fingers crossed that we do not lose power and Internet. But in the event you get no response from The Basement or Part-Time BBSs, you'll know why.
-JP
As of 8:30pm PT tonight, Basement and Part-Time are back up. Of course, there is freezing rain tonight and early tomorrow, so knock on wood, we stay up through tomorrow. ;-)
-JP
I'm just glad you and the family are safe.
Quick update: Basement BBS is currently back up as dial-up only.
It dawned on me that my landline is underground. And sure enough, it has a dial tone.
So Basement is up at 503-245-5416
;-)
-JP
Sorry to hear that JP, that kind of bad luck is usually reserved for DarkForce!...
Hopefully, the powers that be will get you straightened out shortly.
We've had about 5-6" of snow so far and we're expecting lows of around 7
degrees Tuesday night with negative wind chill factor temperatures. More
snow Thursday night and a low of 3 degrees for Saturday night.
Forget "Winter is coming" - it's here!