Friday, December 4, 2009

A little glitch

The electrician came to do his part in installing the new furnace.  He indicated the breaker on our main electric pole may not be big enough.  He called the electric coop to ask for an upgrade to a breaker with more amps.  Their comment?  "It hasn't been tripping so I don't think we need to install one."  I guess their theory is that it is best to inconvenience the customers by having them traipse all the way out to the pole in the middle of the freezing night to reset the breaker several times before it is worthwhile for them to upgrade their system. 

Apparently we have new management/officers at the top of the electric cooperative now.  When I first moved here, and even when the neighbors moved in, they were really easy to work with and very accomodating.  Now everything is a battle with them and they have raised their rates nearly 25% since I moved here in 2000.  Someone said it was called 'Progress".  Yeah, right.

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