How is the electrical infrastructure here?
 

Not my first hurricane but my first in FL/TV. How does the power service hold up around here? Is an outage a sure thing? I am in Amelia near 466A. Should I expect an outage?

Was in NJ during SANDY and had above ground power poles in a 60yr old home and electric survived 60+ MPH winds. Since everything here is underground and my home is 9yrs old hoping it should be better.

ALWAYS expect a power outage in this type of scenario.

If it doesn't happen...then good for us.

While that is a very true comment it doesn't answer my question. :)


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We Can't predict if there will be an outage or how long it will take to clear it. We've been here since 2009 and lost power once for about 2 hours. Having been thru storms up north we weren't allowed out until there were safe conditions existed.to start repairs on lines. So if it goes out and it's not safe for a crew to go out you could be out for a while. If it's going to go out hope it's near the end of the storm passing our area and not in the beginning. Nobody is going to risk there crews lives period

We have been here 9 years, 3 full time, I can say that we have only experienced 4 power failures, the longest about 90 minutes. All were due to equipment failures, none during a storm. Got my fingers crossed in hope Irma doesn't screw up the average.

Info here. Look at restoration
Www.secoenergy.com

Actually, it does.

You asked, "Should I expect an outage?"...and I answered it.

As far as asking someone, anyone, "is an outage a sure thing," if you find someone that you believe can confidently predict the future...I would start asking them about stocks. :D

Most of the infrastructure in the villages is buried, and therefore, somewhat shielded from the rather of mother nature. However, ALL of the lines feeding the substations that serve the villages area are OVERHEAD and therefore subject to the full fury for the storm called IRMA. As long as these are temporary faults, that the power will be restored quickly (seconds to minutes). If there is relatively minor damage, power can be restored soon (minutes to hours), If a line is severely damaged, then outages may be substantially longer. From what I have seen FL utilities seem to understand heavy wind and and have designed their lines for these conditions.
IMHO, yes, I would expect short outages, and hopefully short restoration times. For this reason, we do not have a generator, left it up North.

:bowdown::bowdown: YAY! The type of answer I was looking for! Thank you! :D

I guess I should have been more specific in my OP!

Thank you - going forward I will have my posts pre-checked by my Chief of Staff, I mean wife, for clarity before public release and be more to the point in any request for information. :D

Great link, thanks.

Power was out for several days after 2004 Charley hurricane.

Great data point! Thanks

We lost power here for about an hour a week or so ago at around 10PM. Virtually everything from 466A down to LSL was out all on the east side of Morse. Went out for a ride and man was it ever dark! I also noted i heard hardly any generators running at least where I was driving.

We live in the Village of Santiago, been through 3 hurricanes and have never experienced any kind of power outage!

THAT'S what I like to hear! (He says while knocking wood, plastic or any synthetic material in the vicinity!)