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Originally Posted by AGDee
What they said on the local news about the limiter is that it is supposed to allow enough electricity to be used to keep the heat, refrigerator and stove going. I'm not sure how they determine how much that takes, especially since during that time period, our night time lows were -5 or so with day time highs of 8. My furnace ran continuously to keep the house at 68 during that time period. It was bitter bitter cold. Over 400 school districts in the Detroit area had school cancelled for a "cold" day the day before this guy was found. Bay City is about 150 miles north of Detroit, where it was even colder.
ETA: Since he had no kids and was 93 years old, there's a good chance there was no family at all.
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Thank you. This is what I wanted to know, and it most definitely wasn't covered by the article. Another poster suggested that the information was in the linked article, but alas it wasn't. I wasn't the one who expected it to be.
The point you make is the one I wondered about. What's the point of a limiter if the amount of power you need to keep from freezing to death exceeds the limit?
I don't blame the power company specifically, particularly in a case with an outstanding 1,000 dollar bill, but it does seem that as a society we could certainly do better than this.