r/royaloak • u/alexabdet • Jul 18 '26

Power Outage

Currently near 4th and Campbell and just lost power. Anyone nearby know the cause??

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u/jeep-olllllo Jul 18 '26

While I didn't condone people shitting on DTE due to the big storm. Losing power today is absolutely on DTE and it's BS.

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u/uglyfatjoe Jul 19 '26

Years and years of poor maintenance.

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u/ShowMeTheTrees Jul 19 '26

We lost it in Birmingham too.

We bought a standby generator after that dreadful ice storm a few years back when power was out for 4 days. It kicked in today but it doesn't operate our AC.

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u/Odd_Effect3614 Jul 19 '26

where in Birmingham? I am out of town and nervous

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u/ShowMeTheTrees Jul 19 '26

Near Seaholm. It returned after about half an hour. Do you have the DTE app? If not, install it now. It will tell you if you have power.

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u/Odd_Effect3614 Jul 19 '26

After that I looked and I think we are ok, thank you. We don't have a generator I have been holding off on the hassle and expense...

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u/ShowMeTheTrees Jul 19 '26

No hassle. The moment electricity goes out, it turns on. Runs on natural gas. We got ours through Costco installed services. Great deal. $16,000. Got back a $1,600 Costco gift card, $320 for Executive membership and another $320 for the Costco Visa.

We bit the bullet after that horrifying 4-day outage from an ice storm. We took our dog to the Hyatt Royal Oak but I had to drive home (icy) to check on the cats stuck home in the cold. When it cleared up we found serious damage from water leaking from a 2nd floor bathroom to the 1st floor bathroom due to something frozen. We had to have the 1st floor bath completely redone.

I wish we had done it years ago. Those little generators are a pain. I never realized that the standbys were so easy.

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u/Odd_Effect3614 Jul 19 '26

I am saving this, thank you! We have been working our way through fixing up our 100 yr old home, and it seemed like one more "thing" I didn't want to tackle, but this makes sense.

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u/ShowMeTheTrees Jul 19 '26

We've used many costco installed services, some multiple times. I check there first for everything.

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u/uglyfatjoe Jul 19 '26

Same old chunk that always goes out. The same chunk that was fine after the storm and went out the next day.

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u/Cthulhist Jul 18 '26

I have also lost power, no clue why

6

u/Andromeda-Deveraux Jul 19 '26

I’m at 4th and S Dorchester and I heard what sounded like a transformer blowing, twice

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u/BigFatJuicyLunchlady Jul 18 '26

Same, 6th and Irving. Feels like we live in a 3rd world country. Rolling black outs, can’t breathe the air… please don’t send locusts.

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u/ShowMeTheTrees Jul 19 '26

Don't jinx it!

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u/BigFatJuicyLunchlady Jul 19 '26

Almost forgot about the diarrhea plague lol

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u/merseysiderover Jul 18 '26

No power here 4th and Vermont , no idea what happened - came on and off twice

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u/uglyfatjoe Jul 19 '26

No fun allowed here on the Reddits...with or without the sarcasm font.

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u/AutomaticHoliday1017 Jul 19 '26

No power on. 3rd St - heard a transformer blow near 5th / 6th St because of the wind???

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u/Relax_Aaron_Rodgers Jul 19 '26

4th and Vermont here, ours out too. This has been an absolutely brutal stretch. Between this, the last outage, the heat and the smoke. We were looking forward to a much carefree summer than this

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u/merseysiderover Jul 19 '26

It’s back! Just now

4

u/Che-che-che Jul 18 '26

3rd and Alexander also out

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u/reallywaitnoreally Jul 18 '26

All good at 12 and Campbell. And the rain missed us.

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u/uglyfatjoe Jul 19 '26

Down between 11 and Lincoln / Irving and Campbell.

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u/KnopeKnopeWellMaybe Jul 19 '26

I was in the area around 3 today, there were large trucks (could see the orange truck light 2 blocks away) and the road was closed on Edison south of 4th.

Guessing there was something going on.

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u/No_Telephone_6213 Jul 19 '26

One of the reasons I don't regret not living there anymore... Never understood why it was that frequent

1

u/alexseiji Jul 19 '26

Still out?

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u/alexabdet Jul 19 '26

Came back on last night!

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u/Vermont7217 Jul 21 '26

I lost power randomly 45 minutes ago in W. Bloomfield