How’d the city do during the May 9th storm? I’m just going to run through some of the slides.
These are the Alert Towers. They’re being tested, but haven’t come online yet. (I think they used to be used years ago, but have been broken for a long time, and now we’re bringing them back?)
So a ton of work was done overnight and into Friday.
There were a ton of people without electricity:
The last people didn’t get their power back for two full days.
There were a lot of anecdotes about the city not knowing about different outages, and people reaching out directly to councilmembers. Staff says that often the resident is talking to a field worker who doesn’t have access to the master map of all outages. So the resident thinks the city is ignorant about an outage, but really they weren’t talking to the right person.
Still, they conceded they need to do a better job of staying in touch with residents who call in to say they’ve lost power.
Kind of a bummer to see all those trees down.
Lots and lots of community volunteers.
Some plans for what to do better, next time.
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