With Duquesne Light’s shitty service? Nothing surprises me anymore.

Why doesn't PA require that the schools get a certain base of funding from their districts and that any additional funds have to be part of individual levys? In West Virginia and Ohio, schools have a different funding mechanism. One of these is Levys, which cover certain types of spending and must be voted on for renewal every five years of they expire and cannot be made up out of other revenue.

Yes, but a half dozen within half an hour? That’s a bit beyond “it happens”

Yes! For a split second they did. And yes, they are still out.

Transformer blew. Has nobody on this sub experienced this before or what?

Mr. Yuk is mean, Mr. Yuk is green!

We’re close by, did yours just flicker is it still out?

It’s a transformer. They blow. It happens.

In Wilkinsburg it did the same flicker thing but went all the way down and has been since then. Also witnessed blue/green flashes further east illuminating the clouds

Sure do.

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I’m glad you think yours was fair. But if you’re paying taxes based on the actual sales price (times the CLR), then the taxes you’re paying are correct but probably not fair. The reason being the fair market value is probably the price you paid. For homes that haven’t sold recently, the county uses a 2012 actual assessment. If your house was reassessed due to the sale, the county reduced the assessment by about 80 percent to attempt to calculate what the home would have been worth in 2012.

The courts recently determined the 80% number was not accurate, due to the county using cherry picked data as the basis for the calculation.
The real number should have been 63%.

Assuming your assessment is about 80% of what you paid for the house, you may save 20% by filling an appeal. That would probably put you close to paying your fair share. I’d contact one of the attorneys that probably sent you a mailing when you bought.

And as far as far as fairly funding schools,my take is the resources available to educate a child should not be dependent on the value of his neighbors home

Seconding this. Transformers make some interesting blue-green colors when they explode. It’s a mix of the arcing electricity and the oil they’re filled with

Yes, with a really bright flash of light. It was LOUD by me.

Carmella’s is also a good spot if he is a whiskey drinker!

Mine is still out

Which war?

What specifically are you referring to with "anti-war?"

Sounds like a transformer blew

Yep getting tons of flickers in Forest hills

Oh f$k! I hope everyone's safe!!

My question now is how? I would have assumed an organization like Duquesne wouldnt be experiencing such issues.

Transformer blew at the wilkinburg substation - whole bunch of transformers on that grid blew as well, they're now reporting a brush fire at the substation

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I was walking down that street for the first time ever tonight, and I don't think you are kidding. I even said "what is this fancy ass Italian place doing here?"

pulse point shows multiple transformer explosions - including one on braddock.