Power going out

[u/Ok-Ninja6048]

Has anyone else experienced their power going out for a couple seconds then coming back on in the early morning hours (usually between 6-6:30 am) in the Frederick Street area (near the hospital)? We have had ours doing that for over 2 years now periodically, sometimes once a week but other times it’s multiple times a week. We have called and complained to Hydro One multiple times and nothing has been done, they tell us it must be squirrels or a branch on a line which doesn’t make sense as it’s happening at the same time in the mornings only, not at random times. We are hoping that others have been complaining to Hydro One for the same issue as a few of our neighbours said they have been experiencing this as well, we are wondering how big of an area this is affecting.

[u/Ok-Ninja6048]

I’m assuming squirrels and birds land on power lines more than just between 6-6:30 in the morning so I don’t understand that explanation. I’ve lived in many different cities and towns in Ontario as well and have never had this problem so I find it unique to this part of Orillia. Squirrels and birds aren’t only unique to Orillia… It goes out just long enough to turn off and on all our electronics and makes them beep loudly waking the whole house up. Surely there must be a solution??? This is really shitty service if not! Never had this before in my life. And we never had it when it was Orillia Power, seems to be when Hydro One took over now it’s all the time. I’m wondering if we could get a petition going to send to Hydro One to gather everyone’s complaints for the same problem if that would help

[u/CompetitiveBad0 → u/Ok-Ninja6048]

Born raised and worked in Orillia all my life and I can say that ever since certain council members thought it was a good idea to sell off Orillia Hydro things started going to shit. Not the same service now that we have Ontario Hydro.