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August 21, 2005

Saturday's Discovery

We need to buy flashlight batteries.

Lightening hit a piece of equipment at a Southwestern Electric power plant leaving thousand`s [sic] in the dark. Swepco officials say a 160,000 volt line shut down at their Gentry Plant affecting not only them but Caroll and Ozarks Electric customers as well.

Which meant most of NW Arkansas had no power at all. For a while the only connection we had to the world was the DSL and my little battery powered weather radio. We were beginning to wonder if the revolution had started and we didn't get the memo.

Sad sign of the times.

Posted by Rita at August 21, 2005 03:55 AM

Comments

Ahh That explains the massive power outage.

From Smokin Joe's by ISD, all the way to Bella Vista, all the way out to my folks place by Avoca was out of power. Most of pea Ridge too.

I however, just across the state line had plenty ;)

When you move I'll run you an extension cord if you need it ;)

Posted by: BloodSpite at August 22, 2005 06:37 AM

Ours flickered for a couple of seconds. I had no idea about the reast of the area, though.

Posted by: Matt at August 22, 2005 09:31 AM

Ours was off for about an hour. We were surprised they got it back on that quickly considering what had happened.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 22, 2005 03:59 PM