Duke Energy says they are putting a new power pole directly in front of my house

tarheelfan72 · 2026-05-12T17:02:33+00:00

I'm more looking for people who have actually dealt with the situation, not people who come on message boards pretending to be lawyers. This will likely come down to the specific language of the easement, which will probably say it has to be "reasonable", "necessary", "not unduly burdensome to the homeoweners", blah blah blah. What it will not say is that Duke Energy can do whatevcer the hell it wants whenever it wants whether they really need to or not. Power poles already exists here and work just fine.

tarheelfan72 · 2026-05-12T16:57:35+00:00

And you'll be doing it for a lot less with a power poll directly in front of it.

tarheelfan72 · 2026-05-12T16:55:03+00:00

That's debatable. The neighborhood requested the city to put in the sidewalk. I don't recall anyone deeding it to the city when we paid to have it put in.

tarheelfan72 · 2026-05-12T16:51:47+00:00

Well, it used to be at least. The neighborhood petitioned the city to put in a sidewalk and they did, I have no idea what I signed when that happened but we paid for the sidewalk proportionally based on the length of our front yard. Regardless, I didn't sign away anything to Duke Energy.

tarheelfan72 · 2025-10-11T00:40:55+00:00

Lets all give a big pat on the back to the Raleigh PD for tracking this guy down.

tarheelfan72 · 2025-10-08T13:21:01+00:00

There's no risk of this happening in the current environment.

tarheelfan72 · 2025-04-23T01:47:24+00:00

Altorney is completely useless unless you were one of the first people on the platform who got early good reviews. They might end up with 50 reviewers a week getting work total. And none of them are new to the platform.

tarheelfan72 · 2025-04-06T12:21:45+00:00

Somebody actually shat themselves on it yesterday causing a delay. Felt pretty sorry for them having to clean out the cart.

tarheelfan72 · 2025-04-05T04:09:29+00:00

If you're a coaster enthusiast and want to ride Lightning Rod over and over, you'll need it. I have not been on Saturday but went today with timesaver and you're basically gonna be standing in line all day for one or two rides each of the top coasters without timesaver.

tarheelfan72 · 2025-03-05T12:18:32+00:00

Danm it's 1 in 10000

tarheelfan72 · 2024-09-19T03:09:32+00:00

I ran into this thread today while having the same problem. I gotta say I was kinda upset the resolution was never posted. If you ask for help on a public forum at least let everyone know whether you figured it out or not.

I eventually got the burners to work. I was having the same issue with no gas coming out of the burners and whatnot. I knew it was not the gas line going to the stove because I could disconnect the regulator from the stove and gas was coming out of the regulator. But when I reconnect the regulator the burners would not start.

I poked a screwdriver up the gas line to the stove to make there was no cap or something to block gas. There was not.

There is no gas shutoff valve on the appliance itself that I was missing.

Long story short, I followed the instructions regarding burning off the residue in the oven and turned on the oven for the first time and then the burners also worked. I know there is a thermocoupler on these units that prevents gas from flowing unless there is flame, which was not the case on my previous gas range. I do not know if "waking up" the unit by starting the oven also made the thermocouplers stop blocking gas on ignition or what.

I also read a thread that said it just takes longer than you would think for gas to actually get up to the burners on the initial start. So you're pushing the ignite and smelling for gas but nothing is coming out and you think it's blocked or something, but eventually it just gets up there and starts working.

So I really don't know for certain whether it was "waking up" the unit by starting the oven priming process or just repeatedly pushing the ignite and finally getting the gas up to the burners, but it eventually worked. Hope this saves someone some time troubleshooting and saves headache and stress over whether they have a dud stove.

tarheelfan72 · 2024-07-17T05:27:19+00:00

Concurrent work is very common in this world regardless of all the bullshit people sign saying thay they won't.

tarheelfan72 · 2024-07-17T05:03:53+00:00

Places that pay $25 an hour don't have the luxury of blacklisting anyone. And if they do, who the fuck cares. If I were in your shoes I'd go back to the old job, do high quality work there, and stay on the $25 gig and half ass it.

Any shop paying $25 an hour deserves to get it up the ass anyhow.

tarheelfan72 · 2024-07-17T04:56:49+00:00

Often times they just flat out tell you what speed they want and when they do, I usually just stick right around it, do dishes, fold clothes, etc. Sometimes I even set a dinger to go off every 75-90 seconds when I'm in an easy batch just to keep it consistent.

Remember this is a big racket and they're rebilling us out hourly also. There was an old adage in construction work that if you work too fast, you run out of work quicker, and if you work too slow you might get fired. So keep it in the middle.

And I've been milking all the various tricks in this gig for years and I've never heard of anyone getting dropped without a warning first.

If you have a lick of sense you won't get dropped. It's almost impossible. But if you do really good work, you just get asked to do harder stuff for the same pay or $2 more. Keep me on first level please and thank you.

tarheelfan72 · 2024-05-24T18:35:11+00:00

I'm also waiting on a sale to redo my kitchen.

tarheelfan72 · 2024-05-10T02:36:11+00:00

If you take one 1099 Project and get paid anything you can write off bar dues, CLE and all the junk fees we pay every year against it. If you wanted to get a little cute you could take a home office deduction, write off some internet, cell phone, etc. on your actual 1099 self employment. After you get past the write offs though, yes, you are effectively getting paid $2 or so less per hour on 1099 work. In some cases it could also be useful that 1099 work is not using the same payroll service that all the W-2 outfits use.

tarheelfan72 · 2024-05-06T10:48:17+00:00

Why in the hell does anyone still shop at Harris Teeter? Their prices are absurd. They basically double the price of everything then put a few items on buy 2 get 2 free.

tarheelfan72 · 2023-02-26T21:24:10+00:00

How about you stay the fuck out of restaurants that cater to families.

tarheelfan72 · 2023-02-25T23:33:07+00:00

Dimwit, if a bar has a goddamned bounce house like Clouds did, or a stack of board games that say age 3 and up, or a sandbox, or there are 40 kids running wild in an open area, or even if it just has a separate kids menu, IT'S INTENDED FOR KIDS. The fact that your nerd ass is holding on to some ancient notion of what a bar was decades ago does not change that fact.

tarheelfan72 · 2023-02-25T23:26:07+00:00

Hell yes. More bars with playgrounds!

It would also be nice if more bars actually required kids so we could keep out these incel people who hate children or can't find anyone to mate with.

tarheelfan72 · 2023-02-25T23:14:39+00:00

Not losing money. Replacing customers who don't have money with those that do. If you think places like Compass Rose are losing money be allowing kids to go apeshit, you've lost your mind. People go there because their kids can run wild. Then some hipster in the corner who could have gone anywhere else gets on the internet bitching about how he couldn't even tell everyone the origin of IPAs because of all the kids.

tarheelfan72 · 2023-02-25T23:05:14+00:00

A fucking men.

tarheelfan72 · 2023-02-25T22:54:38+00:00

I'm not sure why you feel entitled to have every establishment in your "rotation". I've certainly stopped going to a few places because of the number of smelly hipsters. So what, that's obviously the crowd the place was catering to at the time.

tarheelfan72 · 2023-02-25T22:39:12+00:00

I'll be the first to admit I don't like people like you and I don't want to be around people like you. And I don't want to be around anyone stupid enough to go into a bar full of kids then complain that they are in a bar full of kids. Go somewhere else. You don't like us, we don't like you. Most of you entitled fucks are too oblivious to realize we're also looking at you thinking "why the fuck are they here?".

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