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PuddleCrank t1_j1mlekm wrote

Reply to comment by thisoneisnotasbad in Green Mountain Power keeps marking my power as on when it's not by manofsticks

If you live in the sticks you likely know more than they do. Keep reporting you don't have power. They are doing their best to get as many people back online as fast as possible, but they need to know who's out to do that.

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Loudergood t1_j1msb1v wrote

They rolled out smart meters , they should be able to tell when they're not phoning home.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_j1nlpje wrote

I had a fight with gmp about this actually. As I was building my house the meter to the old house spiked enough to burn out 2 smart meters. The first one they replaced and said nothing, the second on they replaced and said you need a new meter box. I said, let me see and called and electrician who said it would be a few thousand as the wires to the house were not up to current code and would need to be replaces as well. I politely declined and said, a new meter with a 100 amp fuse is a couple hundred and I’ll pay to have it installed. GMP hemmed and hawed at which point I said, it is either that or I opt out of a smart meter and you can send someone here to read the thing manually. The line men there for the service cutoff didn’t believe me but when they called the office their tune quickly changed when the office said it was absolutely within customers rights to request a dumb meter. It cost 600 for the new box, breaker and installation and the meters stopped frying.

The moral of the story is, even when they are keeping the power on, at the end of the day they are a for profit business and every decision they make is to ultimately make money. Don’t be bullied by them.

If they say it is on, and you have checked you breaker, keep reporting it as out.

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Outrageous-Outside61 t1_j1oj8gr wrote

I read that as a fight with a gimp and was really confused when the gimp was gonna come back into the story.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_j1ol1no wrote

Sorry, I don’t have a good gimp story. iPad fixes my spelling and replaces words incorrectly fairly often.

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Outrageous-Outside61 t1_j1ola4i wrote

Autocorrect isn’t always our friend. I was just cracking up at me being a dumbass. Merry Christmas!

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_j1omcrr wrote

I laughed too, and I’ll need to go out and get a good gimp story. Maybe a S&M bar in Montreal could help with that. Merry Christmas.

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