pic: Rock City Power Outage

[JDNovak]

From my recollection, within twenty minutes of the outage the event staff relayed that the power company was having to collect the parts to build a new pole and the estimated recovery time was between 1:30 and 2:30 pm.

The light came back on at 1:30 by my watch.

The complications were that the failure was too close to the event to re-route power and the pole was totally destroyed so no patch was possible.

My experiences have been that the more rural the power company the more competent they are at dealing with failures.