We always make sure we call to report an outage asap, even when it is a area-wide outage. A friend of mine who worked for the state department that regulates utilities said that important to do since they prioritize where people have reported an outage.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Eric Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > Call me a cynic but, I don't see the utilities running around the city > during a major outage restoring power to a person here and a person there > when there's tens or hundreds of thousands of people without power. I was > on my local utilities "list" and was still without power for 3 days. I'm a > vent user and they didn't make me a priority. Granted this was an epic > outage but point being don't rely on "lists" -have an emergency game plan. > > > On 4/28/2016 1:30 PM, Lori Michaelson wrote: > > I had better do that so my answer is no. But I have been under so much > stress over the last 3 months I am still trying to keep up with getting > anything done including change of address for Social Security and Medicare. > > However, I my electric company and gas company each gave me a pamphlet to > take to my physician to have them sign it so if the utilities were to go > out I would be the first one to come to. Since I am dependent upon a > rotating air mattress, an electric hospital bed, wheelchair charger and > Hoyer lift charger, etc. I NEED them to know that so at least I have done > that. They actually offered to do that when I first contacted them. > > ~Lori > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:07 AM, RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Have any quads on the list let the fire department know they use a >> wheelchair and what bedroom they are in? >> >> Ron >> >> >> On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 10:45 PM, Jim Lubin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3023155/The-app-save-LIFE-Emergency-service-tells-rescuers-save-touch-button.html >> >> >> https://www.rapidsos.com/ >> >> >> > > > -- > "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and > heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." ~Dean > Koontz > > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=icon> > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=link> >
