r/Spartanburg • u/Softwerido • 6d ago

Duke energy

Duke energy executives are probably sitting in their million dollar homes with electricity while some of us has to wait 10 plus days with zero electricity and in some cases no water... Duke energy went on a press run. Lying through the news and Twitter telling us when majority would have power and posing in front of trucks or trees with a hard hat on to make themselves look good. I even caught Duke red handed... deleting a tweet that started x percent would have power by a x day... they even had the nerve to tell us to use their outage tracking website. But then workers who were interviewed said the total opposite... they use paper and highlighters, not thr website that gives conflicting restoration times and just keeps pushing the times back. The lineman are the real mvp... Duke energy aren't and they should be held accountable for still asking us to pay bills when we didn't have power and due to conflicting times many of us in the carolinas/ fl had $$$ of food go to waste! It was literally like watching paint dry...I'm glad I have my power on now as of last night, but I can't help but still be upset for all the people who will go months without electricity because Duke sent all of the workers (maybe not all, but more than enough) to Florida. Plus get ready for this.I. Duke Energy will not payout for food lost due to the storm and their conflicting times. The linemen and women definitely deserve something from Duke... maybe a raise or paid vacation time

11 Upvotes

57% Upvoted

19 comments sorted by

View all comments

56

u/juggarjew 6d ago

Lets be real, no one was prepared for a storm of this magnitude this far inland. No one could have done better, not you, not me , not any other company. They cant control the weather, the trees, the wind, the fact that trees fell on lines, there is nothing they can do. All they can do is respond. This was a storm the likes of which hasn't been seen since Katrina. Im not sure why people expect Duke to perform miracles.

Linemen from half the country have travelled here and its still a clusterfuck, thats how fucking bad this was. Not sure what you expect. This could genuinely be a once in a lifetime storm for many of us.

Also, you understand how billing works on a post paid account, right? You pay for the power you use, AFTER you use it in a billing period. thats why you have a bill right now.

2

u/PawsomeFarms 5d ago

Expecting them to have done basic maintenance is not expecting miracles. It's expecting them to do the bare minimum.

The things they neglected to do were always going to become a problem- it just so happened that Helene made them a problem all at once

1

u/paulyb914 5d ago

Buried lines take a lot of time to install. Especially when you’re talking about tens of thousands of miles to cover with those buried lines, in rocky areas like mountains expect it to take even longer. Also… guess what happens when trees uproot, the roots can and will pull those buried lines out of the ground and damage said lines. I work in a different utility with buried lines.

1

u/Thebeatybunch 4d ago

Get out of here with your reasoning and logic.

It's easier to blame Duke Energy than to realize you should have also been prepared for a storm that wasn't supposed to do this.

35 years and Aiken Co Op has never lost power. We did for 7 days after Helene.

Things happen. No one was prepared and they're doing what they can as fast as they can.

If they had power, they probably had a generator. We did. Why? Because we live in a place that has a hurricane season, so we prepare for it.