Power going out and your food spoiling I thought was on you, if they
give you bad power and blow up your fridge, then it's on them. Although,
if it happens during a storm, how can you prove that it was the power
that was the problem? And their lawyers are probably more expensive
than your lawyers. I think that's why they will declare 'weather
emergency' at a any storm, that probably absolves them of getting the
power back in in X timeframe.
On 1/3/2021 5:12 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
Interesting. I’ve always heard they were immune.
On Jan 3, 2021, at 6:11 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure what you're talking about. PG&E was found liable for many billions of
dollars of property damage after several fires were determined to have originated
from their falling power lines. They had to go bankrupt to resolve the cost.
They were also found liable when their poorly constructed gas line blew up and
removed a couple dozen homes from the face of the earth (also cot them
billions).
Many years ago, they had a problem that grounded one side of a split phase
transformer. It cause one phase to our house to go dead, and the other phase to go
to 220 volts. Blew up numerous things. PG&E had to cough up replacement cost
for all the things we had to replace.
Of course, your mileage may vary.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 1/3/2021 3:03 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
How is it that power companies have immunity from damage?
It’s like a Shaggy song.
Send a surge that blows appliances? Wasn’t me.
Send 60 volts for 5 minutes that kills stuff? Wasn’t me.
Food all goes bad because we killed your freezer? Wasn’t me.
I’m not talking about a full on outage. That happens. But how do power
companies get away with immunity from provided improper service that blows
stuff?
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