Electric and Electronic Day

Last night our LR TV had “pixelation” on all of the upper channels. Spectrum, our service provider was called. Tech couldn’t help over the telephone but thought it was a signal problem after other things were tried. Service man was scheduled to come today. The DR smaller TV ran fine. 

This morning the internet service was super slow and then went out. It came back on. It went out again. The landline telephone went dead. The DR TV ran fine. The LR TV was still pixelating on upper channels. Spectrum was called to report more issues with the telephone and internet. 

At 10:30am the electric power went out - the standby generator kicked in. I called the power company Penelec to report complete outage. The generator ran our power for two hours until the power came back on at 12:30pm.

The service man arrived at 2pm. He climbed the pole out front and reported that the problem is not just affecting us, others on our side of the lake area are also having issues. He determined that the signal box is the problem and/or a transmitter up the road, and had to call a “bucket truck” to replace the box on the pole and check out the transmitter for a short. 

In the meantime he ran a new line for us from the cabin to the pole just in case it failed in the future. He said it would be easier to replace it now instead of during winter when the snow is deep. Makes sense, doesn’t it? It’s 40° with a strong wind blowing as he works out there!

The “bucket truck” with the new signal box arrived soon after. There wasn’t a service one available in our area so there was a wait.  3:35pm.....ALL OK now!

We had our first snow last night - just a little. We also caught a mouse by the back door.