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[nicam]

My water gets shut off temporarily from time to time, but never my electricity. Has anyone experienced routine shutting off of electricity, like they do with the water?

I was only running my computer and air conditioner when it cut out at 11 p.m. last night and wasn't back on when I left for work this morning, so it shouldn't be a fuse. My neighbors in the building next door had a light on, so I don't think it's a blackout. I pay bills through my co-teacher, so...

WTF? I can't get a straight answer from any of my teachers and my landlady is constantly unreachable. What should I do if it isn't back on?

[travelingfool]

[nicam]

I have no idea about the payment. My handler takes care of that for me and I can't trust her. She can't EVER remember to tell me anything, like when we have off so I don't treck all the way to a locked and empty school, she "forgets" every little thing I ask her to help me with, etc.

But I'd think that my landlady would at least warn her if she was going to shut the power off on me.

I literally just had to throw away all the food in my cabinets due to a roach infestation and now I will have to toss everything in the fridge and sleep at a friend's house waaaaay out of the way from school. If this is the case I'm calling in "sick" tomorrow. ARRGH.

[stuck]

Did you check the fuse box? You should have one in your apartment. Sometimes the electricity in my apartment trips out and I just need to flip a switch in the fuse box to have it working again. It doesn't come back on automatically.

[nicam]

i live upstairs in a traditonal house and if there's a fuse box it's either downstairs in my landlady's place or in the neighbor's across the hall. So lame. I looked out in the shared entranceway for one but didn't see anything.

[harlowethrombey]

[nicam]

Yeah, it's disgustingly infested. First I saw some big suckers, then 100s of babies. So foul. My landlady must just be a pig. I had this problem last summer, same exact thing (my school refused to pay for anything so i had to pay to exterminate myself) then I moved in with my boyfriend so I didn't care. Now he went home and I am back in the roach coach, and viola! They are everywhere.

I am going on a 3 week vacation home in early July (July 11th to August 3rd), then I am leaving at the end of August. It just seemed silly to move in this case, but I can't bare another day of this. Don't know what to do...

[nathanrutledge]

There should be a breaker box in your apartment, NOT outside of it. Sometimes they are hidden away. Mine happens to be behind a cabinet. Luckily, they cut a hole in the back of the cupboard to reach it...

Find out about your bill from your teacher. If you pay part of a shared bill, then you may not have a breaker box, but if that's the case, EVERYONE'S power would have gone out, unless of course it is just the breaker tripped.

1. IF you are paying ONLY for your apartment, you have a breaker box somewhere in the apartment. Find it.
2. IF you are paying into a shared bill, you may not have a local box, and you'll have to find out where in the building it is.

Did you check all of the outlets? Are the air conditioner and computer plugged into the same circuit? Just because two outlets are next to each other does not mean they are the same circuit!! So, check all the outlets, all the lights. If EVERYTHING is dead, it's probably more than a breaker.

[nicam]

EVERYTHING is dead. My air con and computer were plugged into seperate outlets on opposite sides of the room, and I checked every single socket in the place and nothing is working at all.

I'm almost 100% sure I'm paying seperately from the rest of the house as I've seen bills solely for my portion of the utilities, but I swear I looked everywhere for a breaker box and couldn't find one. It's a studio with a tiny seperate kitchen, so there aren't many places it can hide...

As I suspected I haven't heard back from my co-teacher and don't expect to any time soon. Oi vey.