Thank You Time Warner Cable For Your Reliability

As you probably have head by the national media, on Friday night the Buffalo area was hammered with snow. A state of emergency was declared. Most of the Buffalo/Niagara Frontier lost power Friday evening, we lost it at around 1AM and it came back on Yesterday at around 8 in the evening. But most of the area is still without power.

Just to paint a picture, I was stupid and went to Best Buy Friday night when I got out of work. Normally it takes me 30 minutes to get to Best Buy from work, and 45 minutes to go form Best Buy back home. Punched out of work last night at 7:35PM and I didn’t get back home until almost 2 this morning. Road conditions were terrible, got to be almost zero visibility, 95% of the traffic lights were out on my way there and it was total darkness on my way home. On the way home I encountered over a dozen road blocks due to down trees and power lines. The phrase so close but yet so far away applies here. Many instances I was less then 5 miles away from my house and just needed to get to a side road but a tree was blocking it. I finally went on one north-south running road two roads (and two miles) from mine, less then 100ft from the main road there was a down tree and no cops around yet to turn back traffic. I backed up, and floored my Mountaineer and tried to make it over, no go. Tried again, got sideways, and stuck, after rocking it back and forth and spinning the tires for a minute or two I finally made it over. Can a Prius do that? God bless SUVs!!!

Now to my point, yesterday when the power came back on, so did my cable internet and TV services. Back 10 years ago it would have taken a week to get cable service back with the chaos that’s going on around here. I was shocked honestly, with all the lines that are down I figured cable would be out until at least Monday. And neither service is suffering. I’m still averaging 7.7mb out of 8.0mb on Road Runner and cable TV picture quality is as good as it ever was.

Thank you Time Warner for providing such a reliable service, once again confirming to myself that I made the right choice when it came to reevaluating my choice of TV providers. You guys rock! (I drove around briefly to take a look at the damages and laughed at the people on their ladders with a broom sweeping off their dishes)

The power came on just in time for the CBS Friday line up, and I thought it was really cool that the stupid emergency ticker was not on the HD feed, I’d also like to thank whoever is responsible for not ruing my HD experience on Ghost Whisperer, Close To Home and Numb3rs with a bunch of crap.