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Originally Posted by travelguy
no, will be a giant waste of money. i have been here 5 years; we have had one power outage that lasted about 5 minutes.
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We moved into Fernandina in May this year and have had at least 8-10 outages, the longest lasted about 5 hours, the shortest were less than one minute. None were weather related that we could see. Maybe they were related to all the new construction south of 466A.
We arrived back home a couple of months ago to find power was out. To our chagrin, we could not get in the house, we had been depending on the garage door and had not yet left a key somewhere outside or with a neighbor. Waited about 1.5 hrs as I recall for power to come back on. No big deal, most of the neighbors were out in street so we all had a nice visit.
None of the outages (so far) have caused any problems with refrigeration, just some minor inconveniences.
SECO provides our electric service.
Our experience so far is that power outages are much more frequent here than what what we experienced in 35 years living in Marietta, GA.
Don