Soooo you ever have your internet go out and you think, “those darn ISPs, they don’t do anything”
Its 10:30PM, I am about to go to bed. I check my dashboad app (which gives me health of our service over the whole county reduced to a single page) and there is a bunch of red that popped up in the last 20 minutes.
I jump out of bed, get dressed and go to downtown Winslow.
The particular spot where the service has issue is under a 90 year old building built on stilts. It has been an auto garage, multiple hair salons, restaurants. There is “interesting” remodel work to navigate - sewers roughed in, ad-hoc storage, dangling power lines - it is a mess. I crawl to the equipment and verify we have a power outage. At that moment I noticed a thumping noise above me. That’s odd, all stores closed hours ago… We have battery backup so the outage should have been reported and there was nothing on the PSE app.
I climb out and find that a restaurant (we serve) has a cleaner removing the year’s accumulated grease from the vent hood (It is a fish fry joint, imagine the smell). Everything is taped/curtained off like a hazmat site. The guy running the pressure washer is on his 3rd circuit that he has tripped and moved on to another outlet… You can’t make this stuff up.
I reset our breaker and set my clock for 5AM to make sure I didn’t have to go down again. I had a quiet morning.