Our power just came back on! It went out between 2:00 AM to 3:00 AM on August 28, 2011.....and did not come back on or restored until 8:25 PM
So we had about 17 to 18 hours without power....part of it while sleeping.....
So far as of now we are typing BGE has restored 219,816 customer's power but 422,423 customers are still in the dark out of the total of 1,266,600 customers!!!
They started doing storm operations at 12:00 pm on 8/27/2011.........in some electrical companies, even streetlight services have to be involved! I know that sometimes you have to work non-stop for 18 hours if there is major outage or storm outage....
While we all are comfortable at home....resting...lets take the time to APPRECIATE all the HARD working linemen who is working their ASS off restoring our power! I have to say the same for the workers in all electric companies who has to work THIS hard....
Not a pretty picture!!!!