No, I do not have that problem. I live in Beaumont, Texas and our power only goes out a few times a year.
Back in the 90s I worked for a TV station here and we had a lot of outages, mostly at the transmitter site which was out in the woods about 10 miles outside of town. That was money lost and the boss was constantly on my ass to stop it. Short story is I investigated and found it was primarily due to a lack of maintenance by the power company. They had curtailed their pole and tree trimming program in the rural area around our transmitter and tree limbs were very close to the HV lines and vines had grown completely to the top of many of their poles, again within inches of the HV lines. Any wind would produce a short and take that section of the grid down. This was completely obvious after I made a two hour inspection of the lines near our transmitter site.
I met with the power company's engineer and explained this to him. He was sympathetic, but nothing happened. I suspect he was well aware of the problem but had been cut off by higher management, probably due to cost. My boss was an SOB and continued to ride me about it. I like telling the story from this point, but you can skip ahead to the last paragraph if you wish.
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First for background, the station manager and two of the other managers at this TV station were very hostile to engineers in general and to me in particular. When I was hired I was given a lecture about how they did not like BS. How their previous chief engineer had always tried to BS them. How they were good at detecting it and that they would not tolerate any from me. I should have ran at that point but being a honest person I thought there would be no problems.
Anyway, I decided to document the power problems. It was pre-digital days so I bought some film for my 35mm camera and took off in my truck. I spent over two weeks roaming the power grid and photographing the poles and trees the wires passed through. I recorded every pole number and tree location. When the film was developed and printed I made two binders with the photos, a description of every location, and the times and dates of each observation. I was hard at work on these binders one afternoon when my boss proudly announced that he was tired of waiting and had scheduled a meeting with the power company the next morning. He stated he was going to get to the bottom of the situation. I wasn't ready but I worked late. I came in early the next morning and after two hours more work completing my binders, I joined the meeting a half hour late. I got stares from my boss and a couple of his other managers who were present.
In the meeting the power company was represented by the engineer who I had previously spoken to and a PR guy. The engineer was sitting back in his chair and saying nothing. The PR guy was applying the BS so thick that you could walk on it and my boss and his other managers were eating it up eagerly and begging for more. They loved it. They were buying, were completely agreeing with every turd that was offered. After listening to this for about five minutes I placed the binders in front of the power company's people and my boss. They all looked. After about a minute or two, things changed rapidly. The power company engineer came forward in his chair and joined the conversation. The PR guy just SHUT UP. He knew I had called him a bare faced liar. I believe I detected a small grin, perhaps a smirk on the face of their engineer. He completely acknowledged that they had neglected the tree trimming program. He promised he would take care of the situation.
I continued to check the power grid over the next weeks and months. I saw trucks working the area and the trees were trimmed properly. The vines were cleared from the poles. And the power outages decreased significantly. In the years since then I have made occasional trips back to that area and have observed that the tree trimming has continued. Although I no longer work there and do not have access to the power outage figures, I feel confident that they are still at low levels. I had embarrassed the power company into action. I never got a single nod or single word of thanks or acknowledgment from my boss. But I grin every time I think about it. I'm grinning now.
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The point is, power outages have actual causes and they can be prevented. From Google Maps it appears that your area has a good number of trees. It is possible that the outages you are experiencing are due to a lack of proper tree trimming around the power lines in and near your town. You could drive around a bit and take some photos. Present them to the power company and see if it helps. Meet with their engineers, not PR people or salesmen. Keep in mind that any incident on the grid that serves you, even across town or outside of town, even on another branch of the HV lines, could be reflected to an outage at your location. So check out all lines that exit from the sub-station that serves your area, not just the ones that come directly to your location. My actions of years past at that rural grid may be part of the reason why my power here in town is also very reliable.
