Alameda power outage

We had three power outages today! The first two were around 2pm and lasted less than 15 minutes. The third was around 6:30pm and lasted nearly an hour. This was perhaps the longest power outage in the 16+ years that I’ve lived here.

Unless I missed it, there were no updates on AMP’s website re: the service interruption. I see an update dated 8:53pm, but there were none during the outage as to the probable reason(s). Perhaps this is such a rare event that it caught AMP off-guard? Might be a good time for them to start a twitter feed similar to PG&E 🙂

Not a biggie in the grand scheme of things, life goes on. But it was really annoying to see all the lights on in the library at around 3pm and a sign saying “The library is closed due to power outage”.

Kill-a-Watt

From the AMP newsletter:

To help Alameda residents measure how efficient their 120-volt appliances, electronics, and computers are, AMP has donated 10 Kill-a-Watt monitors to the Alameda Public Library. The easy-to-use monitors help calculate the energy costs for each appliance or electronic device tested, and library patrons can borrow the monitors much like they borrow a book!

This is very cool! Reserve your monitor here (as you would expect, there’s a waiting list) 🙂

Additional info on these monitors.

Stealth campaign?

Election season is well underway in Alameda, but inquiring mind wants to know if Beverly Johnson is running a stealth campaign or is she really serious about running for Council? For starters, she doesn’t have a campaign web site nor has she cared to reply to the campaign questionnaires. Perhaps a classic case of DYKWIA!