Jed, you probably know that to fix a line the power to the entire line has to be turned off. That would turn off power to many more people than initially.
Ed Storms Sent from my iPad > On Feb 12, 2014, at 8:44 AM, 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 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 >
