Power Outages
 

PP&L Electric provids an outage map showing where the outages are AND how many customers are affected by each outage. This map will change. Some outages were in Lyoming (one large one) and Northhampton counties (upper left and right). But most were and are (at the time of this post) in Lancaster county. The map uses 21st Century technology so that consumers have some idea what has happened and some idea how long repairs may take.

Atlantic City Electric provides an outage map that even identifies outages by neighborhood and with estimates for power restoration. Two days ago, most of their outages were in the upper center and upper left of their map. All were repaired on or before restoration estimates.

Those are the electric company regions North and West of PECO, and east of PECO.

Now view PECO's outage map. They only provide a number of outages in each county, no idea if your outage if even on that list, what parts of the county are out, and no idea how large your outage (to estimate how many days it will take to restore power).

Three electric companies with different 21st Century concepts.

PECO says this was the worst storm they have ever dealt with. That's a pretty big claim.
Maybe it's the worst storm some PR manager's secretary... um, personal assistant, remembers. :eyebrow:

Six days after the storm, a large number of Quebec Hydro (power company) trucks arrived. Normally the local power company gets support from Commonwealth Edision (Chicago area) or crews from Kentucky. This is the first time I have seen any trucks from outside the PJM area. Apparently they are here for our tropical climate.

Just like clockwork - every third day means a little more snow.

Saturday morning I saw a 2 block long convoy of Georgia Power trucks headed into North Philly.

Another foot of snow coming in and some models have another round of ice... I'm exhausted.