Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: One bottleneck in power line restoration is the lack of tree surgeons to > remove the "widow makers" that overhang the downed power lines. >
Georgia Power brought in hundreds of out-of-state tree removal crews, as well as power company repair crews. So that should not be a problem. The fluctuations in the number of outages versus affected customers are interesting. You can see that they fix the big outages first. It will take them a long time to get around to fixing an outage affecting "5 customers." The total number of "outages" increases even when total "affected customers" decreases. It resembles the number of active oil wells in the U.S., which has increased tremendously even as overall production falls, meaning that average wells produces much less than they used to. - Jed
