Power didn’t go out here, a little over 2 inches of rain. That is all.
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Truly amazing. Glad you are okay. It appears that Matthew decided to spend it’s energy on rainfall rather than outright wind damage.
Undoubtedly almost all the outages except right on the coast are due to trees. They can take weeks to finish cleaning up
Rain gauges http://nc.water.usgs.gov/realtime/rainfall.php
Duke Outages: http://outagemap.duke-energy.com/ncsc/m.html
Some cities buy electricity wholesale from Duke Power and do their own distribution and line maintenance, so the actual number is probably higher. The normal practice is power companies don’t staff up power line crews for worst case scenarios – they have arrangements to have crews from other power companies come in and help as long as the home territory was unaffected – so probably a lot of electric utility trucks flowing up and down I-85 and I-95. Virginia probably has some issues as well.
Back from 1977-78 I worked for Duke power – it was my first real programming job. They put me in the group that sent out the power bills.
One of the other guys I worked with was working on a new system. The goal was to map every single power line and how they were connected to every other line. The goal was that when an outage happened, by looking at the phone calls, they could quickly pinpoint the location of the cause of the outage.
Spin forward to 2016 – now when the power goes out, within a minute or so I get a text message to my phone telling me the power is out and updates until the power is restored.