#PowerOutage Nothing like a four hour power outage to remind you how much you take for granted the magic of electricity! I am so glad to have it back. I am always curious about what causes these outages and how far away the workers came to fix it. Since CILCO doesn’t have any line crews to speak of they probably came from Indiana or Missouri.
Other than the loss of electricity and a trip to Pekin for lunch yesterday there wasn’t much going on. We were lucky the power wasn’t off long enough for the basement to flood and the sump pump emptied what was there just in time. We have a rather large pond at the south end of our property and Dillon creek was running to the top of the banks. The water will go down in a day or two if the rain stops.
MjL 25 Jan 2010, 4:19 a.m.
#PowerOutage Not sure if it is related or not but I went to church early yesterday morning, (Groveland Missionary Church, on the corner of Springfield Rd and Queenwood), a little before 8:00 a.m. At the house that is on the East side of Springfield Road, on the last curve before the road straightens out going into Groveland there was a firetruck with its lights on, on the west side of the road. I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary, but when I left church a little after noon, there were several utility trucks there and it looked like they had replaced a pole, didn’t see anything else to tip me off to what had happened.
Michael T. 25 Jan 2010, 1:47 p.m.
#PowerOutage Hi Michael —— Thanks for the update, I am pretty sure that must have been it. Our power comes through Groveland and accidents in that area and at the intersection of Allentown & Springfield roads have caused outages before. We were out for almost a week back when all those trees got knocked down some years ago in Groveland. I don’t know what it is about that little curve or the intersection of Queenwood & Springfield but there seem to be an awful lot of crashes in that area.
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