Puget Sound Energy is the power company here, but they contract out their installation services to POTELCO. They showed up yesterday morning, looked at the meter base, and said "there's a problem". The vertical conduit was secured to the post with a 16" piece of Unistrut. You can see it here:
Apparently they require it to be secured in 2 locations, with the second one lower down. They took the time to pull the cable through the conduit under the road (128' of 350 kcmil), and then headed out.
Early this morning the electrician came back and put the bit of Unistrut in. Then POTELCO came back and hooked up the service. They had to splice to 4/0 AWG because that's all that could fit in the the meter base. I think most of their time was spent splicing.
It took them less than an hour, and they disappeared without saying goodbye :-(. After flipping the main breaker AND the circuit breaker AND the GFCI reset, I was able to get power out of it. So it works. Yay.
One of the workers, José, left behind his knife. He had decorated with red/gold/green stripes of electrical tape. Viva Mexico, José.
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