13 Feb 08 Sparrow In The Tree Top

My Mother had the 78 of that 1950′s song by Guy Mitchell.

It always springs to mind when we have yet another power outage here. I think whenever a sparrow lands in the tree outside it kills the power, as SCEG’s distribution network is so unreliable.

I’ve never lived anywhere where the power goes out 2-3 times a month or more. Until I lived here I used to use power surge protectors, but never had to invest in a bunch of UPS’s for the computers, so my work isn’t lost.

This company charges enough for its power, and if you’re a tad late paying their outrageous bills, they’ll cut you off in a heartbeat, but there are no positive attributes I can find to describe them.

If they spend some of their income on modernizing the network – laying cables underground instead of on poles perhaps – instead of just maximizing profits, we’d get a more reliable supply.

A national grid would help of course too, but that’s not going to happen any time soon, and anyway, is a different issue from the lousy local supply.

Expensive, overpriced, lousy, unreliable – that about all that comes to mind, when I think of SCEG

Tags: expensive, overpriced, poor electricity supply, SCEG, unreliable, useless utility