The weather has completely cleared up in Atlanta, and the snow has mostly melted. But the power company website shows they are still hard at work:
http://outagemap.georgiapower.com/external/default.html They are finally catching up. In the last 20 minutes, the numbers have dropped: 2:16 2,603 outages, 202,419 customers affected 2:26 2,568 outages, 195,515 customers 2:36 2,571 outages, 193,532 customers There are many yellow triangles saying "5 or less customers." They will be the last to be fixed. When the wire pulls out of your house, they don't fix it at all. You have to call someone. That happened to me once. Future generations will say we put up with a lot of bother with this technology. It is the best we can do at a reasonable cost. Putting the wires underground costs a fortune. Maintenance or replacement of underground cables costs another fortune. Zoom out the map to show the whole state and you can see where the weather system changed from freezing rain to snow, just south of Atlanta. A whole bunch of outages down there, not so many a little further north. - Jed
