72+ hours without power

We were given no notification that we were going to be affected by the shutdown. If you're going to use a system like this you need to be more prepared. I respect the need to prevent fires and love the thought but this was extremely poorly executed.

Our neighborhood is full of senior citizens 80+ and no one ever had a clue as to what was happening. It was near impossible to find out what was happening. Your texting and map system said we had power the entire time.

We finally were able to find a generator for rent almost 3 days in. We still had to throw out hundreds of dollars of food. We have the money to replace them but someone less fortunate would be devistated. Luckily no one was hurt in our neighborhood but lots of senior citizens could have been easily injured. Some didn't have hot water because their systems were on electric. My father had medical devices that weren't working until we found a generator.

We work remote and we were forced to pay for coworking as our mobile phones didn't have signal either. Had there been a need to communicate in an emergency we would have been severely limited.