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BJ (bamaj1) posted an update Saturday, Dec 10, 2011, 10:05pm EST, 12 years, 5 months ago
judy - While we had storm damage (holes in roofs, huge trees down across roofs, power lines down, etc..my front porch was crushed by huge oak limbs but the tree is still there) what caused the major outage across the entire northern half of the state was that all 8 TVA power transformers feeding to this area were destroyed. It was a fluke. TVA practices power outage responses, but they'd never done one where EVERYTHING was gone. Some parts of the city had power back after 4 days...but because they had to rebuild our power lines it took a week. Thank goodness for friends who had gas water heaters and could offer a hot shower. 😉 Makes you very humble and respectful of nature's power.