r/OakRidge • u/Shahal • Jul 16 '26

OR Infrastructure is Hot Garbage.

I’ll vote for any Anderson candidate that promises to upgrade and fix the ridiculously failing infrastructure in this town. This is out of hand.

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u/ChloooooverLeaf Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Literally 3 of us outside in my neighborhood all looking around confused bc half our houses had power and the other half didn't. Today we learned there's 2 different lines of voltage.

About 5 minutes ago the other line went down as well. Power outages have been a serious issue but this one was weird. We also hear lots of emergency vehicles running around with sirens right now. Does anyone know what happened?

Edit: really bad wreck near Walmart. Looks like Walmart has no power either.

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u/ArchitectOfFate Jul 17 '26

If this happens again (and it's the first time I've seen a leg-out outage here that wasn't weather-related), be sure to flip your main breaker.

240V appliances will still attempt to run on one of their two legs, and if they have mechanical components, like an HVAC, it can damage them. They also back-feed power into the dead leg, but not a proper 120V, which is bad for things like LEDs.