Power still on in North Roswell but branches are starting to fall off pine trees in my back yard, not a good sign
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > The Georgia Power outage map is interesting. It shows the number of > customers affected increased from 77,132 at 9:45 to 97,450 at 10:15. There > are now 940 outages. Individual outages are not being cleared very quickly. > One at Timberland drive has been listed since this morning. It is affecting > more people than before, now at 842 customers. > > I guess this illustrates the limits of parallel efforts to maintain a > network. I mean that it takes a work crew a certain amount of time to cut > branches and repair fallen power lines. It takes as long as it does, and > having hundreds of other work crews standing by does not make it go any > faster. > > I expect they still have spare work crews standing by, because the news > showed hundreds of trucks coming in from out of state yesterday, and > because 940 outages affecting 97,000 customers is not a lot for an area as > large as this, with a population as high as this. > > At 10:25 the number of outages has risen to 995 affecting 97,683. I don't > see any of the local ones cleared. That is not suggest the power company > crews are not working hard. > > Oops! My power just dropped for a second. Back on. This is eerie, watching > the network fail in real time. > > So far this storm is not a big deal. I have seen much worse ice storms in > Atlanta. > > - Jed > >
