Friday, September 19, 2003 Hurricane Post
From Southern Maryland, my brother writes:
6:30 Reagan Airport just closed. BWI re-opens at noon. No bus service in DC. Major interstates blocked by wires. Thousands of trees down.
Just had breakfast and ran 25 breakfasts over to the call center. Lot's of big burley men chowing down in our kitchen and auditorium. People are crawling out from the offices where they grabbed some z's. I got 3-4 hours on the couch in the lobby. I expected someone to bang on the door but no one did.
84 feeder lines out. This is a record for XXXXXXX. We will be bringing in EVEN MORE crews. They have extended catering (b, l and d) through the weekend. We have over 50% of customers out.
I'm planning to go home ASAP. Lots of trees, etc. in the way. I talked with Judi at 3am when she got up to feed the baby. She had power at 3 and said it was noisey but not dangerous.
Here are the stats:
Outage Update - Hurricane Isabel
Date: Friday, September 19, 2003
Time: 6:00 a.m.
Contact:
Calvert District
Source: Calvert District
* Number of customers affected: approximately 15,900
* Areas affected: From Dunkirk to Solomons Island
* Cause of outage: hurricane, high winds, rain.
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* Charles/Prince George's District
* Source: Charles/Prince George's District
* Number of customers affected: approximately 29,500 customers in
Charles County; approximately 500 in Prince George's County
* Areas affected: Entire service territory for Charles; Accokeek,
Brandywine, & Cedarville in Prince George's County
* Cause of outage: hurricane, high winds, rain, trees on lines.
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* St. Mary's District
* Source: St. Mary's District
* Number of customers affected: 27,092, including XXXXXXX's district
office facilities
* Areas affected: Scattered throughout entire County
* Cause of outage: hurricane, high winds, trees, rain
XXXXXXX is still experiencing transmission-related outages affecting: Charles County substations-Newburg and Faulkner; Prince George's County substation-West Brandywine; St. Mary's County substations-Patuxent Park, Ridge, and Webster Field.
Dry ice will be distributed beginning later this morning, after XXXXXXX determines the best locations to serve the most customers. Customers are limited to two bags of ice per residence. XXXXXXX will announce distribution locations via broadcast media.
XXXXXXX doubled its workforce prior to the storm, and the Co-op is now obtaining other assistance for service restoration. Currently, the Co-op has 382 field personnel and 128 crews in operation. During the night service crews were dispatched to handle emergencies, transmission circuits and priority feeders. As of 6 a.m. this morning, all crews were dispatched to complete system repairs. The Co-op also has assessment teams traveling throughout the service territory to assess system damage. Presently, it may take up to several days to restore all service. -- posted by Chuck at Friday, September 19, 2003 | E-mail | Permalink | Main |
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