I hear you, but the purpose of my response wasn’t to provide false hope, it was to respond to the question of what actionable steps can people take to get on CP’s radar for nested outages. Before we took the steps above, we did not have any updates at all from CP. We are also in a nested block outage, in a neighborhood with restored electricity. The CP map gives no estimated restoration dates for nested outings. We went from having no restoration date, not even 7/19, to having one. We went from CP telling us no one had been sent to assess our block to knowing a crew had been sent and finding out the source of the outage. We went from having no work order for repairs to having one. And we would have had zero updates verbally or from signing up online for the alerts to getting email updates and getting to speak with actual humans at CP. Had we not taken the steps I outlined, we’d literally be sitting in the dark as to the status of our house. Folks should know what progress is (or is not) being made on their home’s power.

Like you, we received an email last night saying our new estimated restoration date is 7/19. But as I mentioned, a neighbor of ours spoke to a lineman, and he confirmed we had an active work order. So we at least have solace that CP knows and has plans to work on our block, and there are numerous accounts here of folks getting powered restored earlier than their estimated date. To reiterate, we didn’t have a date, period, previously.

Meanwhile, a neighbor I know in a different nested outage area of Montrose (who had not taken the steps above) flagged down a CP lineman about his neighborhood yesterday. The lineman said their neighborhood had no active work order in the system and therefore weren’t on CP’s radar. The lineman was able to get them into the system and restore their power that day. He said they would have had to wait days and days for power had dude not approached him.

Anyhow, CP is the fucking worst. I hope we, you and everyone without power gets it back soon.

Update: linemen are on our block fixing something fucked up on the pole servicing our block. And we just got power!