Help! A line to my house has been pulled down by a tree, but I can't tell WHAT line

[DebJ]

and so I don't know who to call. We have power, and we have internet and phone and TV.

Who should I call?

[DebJ]

1. I wonder if this could be an old phone line from our land line days?

We had a land line until a few years ago then we switched to comcast.

[leftyohiolib]

2. if it's a flat cable it's telephone if it's round it's cable tv cable (in general)

if it's a bundled cable (2or3 cables one may be a steel cable) it's probably power

[DebJ]

4. Thanks. It's too far from the house with my eyesight to tell though. n/t

[Phentex]

3. 911 but tell them non-emergency...

they will send for the power company.

Ok, I must clarify that this is the way it has worked for me twice when I had trees and power lines down. Firemen came but the call to the power company was made by the 911 dispatch.

[DebJ]

5. I called the power co directly and we got put into their list of service calls.

No doubt it is growing by the minute.

[DebJ]

6. I called 911. They 'made a note of it' and told me to call the power company. Oh well.

[Brigid]

7. Do you have a non-emergency line in your area?

I think ours is 311.

[anasv]

8. Do NOT go out and look

in case it's some stray electrical line.

In my area if you say line down they pay much more attention than no power.