Downtown Deals With Power Outage
Decatur Metro | March 20, 2009The AJC did a little leg (aka phone) work and found out how local Decatur businesses dealt with yesterday afternoon’s power outage.
Sounds like the area banks were the most put out.
The AJC did a little leg (aka phone) work and found out how local Decatur businesses dealt with yesterday afternoon’s power outage.
Sounds like the area banks were the most put out.
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One has to wonder how the problem was caused by “switch on a pole” when the utilities are underground.
I did notice today that there were several Georgia Power trucks, a backhoe, a small crane, a DeKalb traffic engineering truck and a large hole in Taco Mac’s parking lot about 2PM. (Carl, where were you?)
I wonder if this had anything to do with the blackouts around Taco Mac and Sawicki’s? My wife had lunch at Sawicki’s today and relates this tale after talking to the owner. Sounds like they were unrelated but unfortunate coincidences:
“Sawicki’s refrigeration cases stopped working a couple of days ago. Something about tri-phasic power needed to run AC units. So she called the power company and apparently some wire under the ground was funky. And when they went to fix it, it tripped a bigger problem up at the corner…”
…taking Taco Mac down with them, on what is no doubt one of their biggest business days of the year (first day of March Madness). When I drove by around 8:15 last night, the place was dark, there were emergency repair vehicles all around the premises (including a crane truck), and several despondent people (employees? would-be customers?) sitting on the curb and standing in the parking lot.
Posting at the same time, Steve. Sounds like the problem still isn’t fixed.
lump, I think your assessment stands to reason. Decatur seems to have an underground power problem once a year or so.
I heard something about “tripping an underground wire” through the grapevine too.
We down at West Ponce only lost power for about 45 minutes, but all stayed open and wrote down the numbers and ran credit cards after the power came back on. What was amazing was how many folks just went right through the not working traffic light right by the post office at Nelson Ferry.