Inventing your own parent company out of the blue and announcing staff reductions at Google doesn't appear to be all that simple.
EDF have wound me up this morning.. Gave them my meter readings for gas and electricity and had built up £386 credit on the account after everything had been deducted for my usage over the last 12 months (£81/month direct debit). They have only gone and started a refund of that money despite me telling them in the past I don't want credit back. Now I have to wait 3-5 days for it to hit my bank and then call them up and pay it back. I would rather have too much money on there in case we get a cold winter. They had also dropped my monthly payment to £66 based on the last 12 months usage but they don't factor in the warm winter in their 'calculations' so have had to call them to increase back to £81. Utility companies really are a pain in the arse.
Why don't you just pay what you owe? Seems absurd to advance the electric company money just in case you use more utility power in the winter...
You get a discount for paying by direct debit. They work out what they think you will use in a year and then you pay that off in monthly installments, if you use more they send you a bill and if you use less they credit you. Problem is it doesn't account for what might happen with regards to weather as they base it on last year. I would rather pay too much and have credit in advance than get a surprise £300 bill on top of my £81/month if I suddenly start using lots more. I am thinking now I will keep £186 and send £200 back, if I kept the whole lot I would just waste it on some junk like an XBOX ONE.
Speaking of power issues, I had a transformer explode outside my house last night at 3am. Had to have FPL come with a ladder truck and replace it. Sucked trying to sleep in Florida summer heat and humidity with no air conditioning. This was exactly how it looked and sounded:
Power outages have a knack for happening at the worst possible times. I was visiting relatives this past Christmas and the power went out right before they started preparing dinner for Christmas eve.
Humidity is 70%+ here at almost all times, and it's often 90F+ even late at night. Not something you'll just get used to.
Exact same weather here in Brisbane and I've never had AC. There's usually around 4-8 days a year I wish I had it. Not enough to justify it to me.
AC, just like crack. I've had it in my living rooms of two places I've lived but that wasn't close enough to the bedrooms to matter for sleeping. I used it in the first place around 5 days in the summer. At the second place the room had high ceilings and a lot of windows in a very long open room so I felt like using it with where it was placed would be too inefficient. To me it really depends on how the house is designed as well as the location. I guess I've probably become an efficiency nut, but I have AC at work and honestly I don't feel like I'm missing out.
South Florida is much hotter and more humid than where you're living. It would be uninhabitable without air conditioning. People from other places get off the plane here and are blown away by just how hot and humid it gets.
You lot are just wimps, you should try living in the UK..... Or not, a months worth of rain due today...
I just spent a few hours mounting a window air conditioner in the in-laws bed room. The air conditioner said it was 90 degrees in the room. I was sweating bucket while putting it in.
I mean.. it rains in Florida plenty. and I bet you're not used to it being in a form of a tropical storm or depression. there are occasional hurricanes too if that floats your boat. I think people forget Florida is home to the everglades when they are told about the humidity and heat and try to down-talk it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades
Yeah also people literally die from heat exhaustion all the time. It's a real danger during storms when the power goes out and there's no AC. The heat here is unlike anything you would have experienced in Britain and probably even Australia unless you live in the outback.
Yep, you're right, it's a bit hotter than Brisbane. It seems closer to Darwin or Cairns, which are also classed as tropical not sub-tropical, but maybe not quite as bad (I've been to Cairns at the end of summer, it's pretty terrible and you can't swim in the ocean because of dozens of deadly animals). Anyone who lives in that sort of climate must love the heat.
yea man, it's like supersonic said. Anyone willing to live in that sort of heat has serious mental issues. Florida is the land of weirdos here in the US.