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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 9592256" data-attributes="member: 7016699">So, this past weekend was deeply unpleasant and wildly expensive, and I'm going to rant a little. Feel free to skip.A windstorm blew through here Sunday afternoon about four, and apparently it knocked a tree or a large branch into something really important, because it took like twenty hours for the local power utility to get the electricity back to our neighborhood. That might not have been so bad, if they hadn't been posting (and emailing) updates to the time, then updates saying work had been "paused," then more updates establishing and then moving back the estimated time for getting the power back. (Yesterday morning over the space of an hour-ish, it was 7:15 then 9:30 then 12:30 then 2 PM.) It got to the point that I would have preferred it if they'd just said something like "It's a mess, we don't really have any idea when we'll get the power back, we're working as hard and as quickly as we safely can." The big stress (other than sorta having stuff pending) was my wife nearly losing both her fishtanks.That ended up costing us like half the food in the refrigerator, but that wasn't the big expense.Saturday as we were running errands, we suddenly noticed the EV making a kinda weird noise that seemed to increase as we drove more quickly. The tire pressure didn't seem to be dropping, and I didn't see anything in the but the next morning we noticed that the tire was some amount lower. Yesterday, while we were dealing with other things (getting food, trying to figure out how to get some warmth back into the fishtanks) we took the EV into the tire shop we do business with to have them look at and hopefully fix the tire--turned out the tire wasn't fixable, and the others were old enough that the best thing to do was just to replace the lot of them. EV tires are more expensive, because they have foam in them to deaden noise, and EVs are harder on tires because they're heavier (ours is a relative lightweight at ~5500 lbs.).</blockquote>

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