Day 8 Held Hostage by Duke Energy

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A 5 minute repair from Duke Energy could put mine and 10 other SMBs back in business. Many have called to report this.

This outage hurts tenants in the building which include Health Service Review, Christian Credit One, Adult Care, Amerprise, New Steel, Verizon, T-Moble, International Quality Health Care, Xponex Media, and others. All without power.

Small business is the backbone of Middletown. Right now 10 businesses are out of business. And will continue to be out of business until this is fixed.

Trucks drive right by our pole. I tried to flag one down as they drove by, but they just went on by.

Since last Sunday evening we have been feeding the generators to keep our server farm alive. I took a 2 to 5 am shift Monday refilling our gasoline powered generators.

As I type this, I’m still in the dark.

I hope we soon find power.
Is this the way things will be or might be?

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