Can you get reimbursed for power outage?

[LaurenG]

CINCINNATI - Our newsroom has received dozens of calls and emails from understandably frustrated Duke Energy customers the past few days, sweltering for two days with no electricity and no air conditioning.

This latest outage, four years after the massive Hurricane Ike power outage, has many people in Ohio and other affected areas wondering why these outages can't be prevented.

And if it seems like we have more violent storms these days, we do, according to the National Weather Service. We are not debating whether there is manmade global warming, that is another topic. But storms have been more damaging the past 10 years (Hurricane Irene, Ike, Alabama tornados, etc) than in the four decades before that.

In addition, with iPads, smartphones, and zonal heat pumps and air conditioning these days, we are so much more dependent on electricity than our grandparents were 50 years ago. They just opened windows and hung the laundry out on a clothesline when the power went out. It was no big deal.



Read more: http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/money/consumer/dont_waste_your_money/can-you-get-reimbursed-for-power-outage#ixzz1zTnCLU1q

I thought ths was interesting but not the headline, the part in bold.

[msongs]

1. no but you can be charged extra for repairing GOD's deliberate destruction nt

[LaurenG]

2. Oh yes.

[RebelOne]

3. If your power is out, your meter is not running.

So I doubt that you could be reimbursed for something you were not charged for.

[Thav]

4. Sure, you won't be charged for the cost of the power...

However there's always the transmission charge, and basic service charge, and tuesday charge, and ceo's new bentley charge, and the addition charge, and the creation of the bill charge. I'm sure those won't go away.