Power out in the North Valley (4/28/2020)
I was sitting outside around 11:30pm and heard a crash and then the very loud sound of arching electricity outside, about a quarter to half mile south of Chavez Rd and Rio Grande Blvd in the North Valley/Los Ranchos de Albuquerque area.
Now the electricity is out as far as I can see for the north valley. Geez. Great. Just what we need durring quarentine. :-\. Oi vey. Hopefully it's fixed soon. Been 30 mins and I'm already freaking out lol
Posted Apr 29, 2020, 5:48 AM UTC
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Check the PNM Twitter account, probably a blown transformer or an auto accident. If it's a very small outage, like under 20 house they might not even know about it yet.
Ah jeez, good call. I've got a bad case of cabin fever/quarentine brain. I was searching for the latest tweets for the term "Albuquerque" and "Los Ranchos" and (I guess unsurprisingly) it's nothing but tweets in Spanish... Many not even about Albuquerque, NM specifically (even for just the term "Albuquerque". "Los Ranchos" it at least makes sense to my stupid brain, since it's a common Spanish phrase as well as a place)
Forgot PNM is on Twitter. I'll go check. Thanks.
Their account has a link to their outage page also
Awesome. Updated the original post with a link to the the outage map, where it is showing up now. And with info from u/eating_icecream who called and heard things will hopefully be resolved by 1am 4/29/2020
Thanks to the both of you!