The Outage of 07
Where were you at 5:45 p.m. Thursday?
Yep, that's The Star's newsroom. Dead center is the head of copy editor Hugh Koontz.
Me? I was right here.
Yep, that's The Star's newsroom. Dead center is the head of copy editor Hugh Koontz.And exactly what was behind the outage that left much of Shelby without power for much of the evening?
One tree.
Yep, one downed tree in one backyard.
Specifically, this backyard.
I don't think I'm out of line in saying - if one tree can shut down Shelby, well, something's not right.
posted by Graham at
10:44 PM
1 Comments:
I was shocked to learn that a rotten tree was the culprit! I guess that is better than a squirrel getting fried. Cable was also out. Dairy Queen was running on a generator. It was funny to see them standing at the drive-thru, using a cell to take orders.
I am still trying to figure out what food joints are on the corner of E. Marion and 150, as was reported in the Star. The Y still had power, but the Bp station did not. There are no eating places in that area other than Carlas, the old "Sisters." And they are not yet open in the evening. Taco Bell was slammed. There were a lot of people in Wendys and Sonic was also open, but not Arbys, Burger King or Don's Italian.
It's good to know that DQ has a generator, in case there are more outages-they will have hot food and cold cream!
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