5:30 p.m. – We made some more progress today. PGE is starting to get a handle on transmission lines and begging to move to distribution.
For Clear Creek we were able to reallocate some generators to other areas and get our hands on 6 more generators.
Right now, Node 122 (Bradley, Potter and Holcom) is running 100% on generator. Our power supplies suffered damage on potter, and this will require PGE to reconnect the service drop. There is no timetable when this is going to be fixed so they will be running on generator for some time. The generators have a run time 6-8 hours so a tech will be fueling them up as needed. There will be times we dont get right to gassing due to coverage and down time will happen until we can get them fueled up.
Henrici node is also running 100% on generator. We have been topping it off but from time to time we will not make in time and experience some down time.
Upper Henrici has more troubles than just powering, and we have not been able to allocate resources to investigate, but should be able to this weekend. This is Henrici, Creek up to Seal Ct.
Tomorrow, we will be working with contractors to get mainline back up in the areas where PGE has restored power. We will also be investigating Grasle to see why we have outage still lingering.
We will update tomorrow morning with where we will be working.
9:30 a.m. – Good morning everyone. We started our morning off with multi-generator crisis that needed to be dealt with before we could get going.
As it stands right now, we are up to 700 modems online. Incremental steps as power slowly comes up. PGE is focused on transmission before they will begin work on distribution and then feeds.We made some more progress today. PGE is starting to get a handle on transmission lines and begging to move to distribution. For Clear Creek we were able to reallocate some generators to other areas and get our hands on 6 more generators. Right now, Node 122 (Bradley, Potter and Holcom) is running 100% on generator. Our power supplies suffered damage on potter, and this will require PGE to reconnect the service drop. There is no timetable when this is going to be fixed so they will be running on generator for some time. The generators have a run time 6-8 hours so a tech will be fueling them up as needed. There will be times we dont get right to gassing due to coverage and down time will happen until we can get them fueled up. Henrici node is also running 100% on generator. We have been topping it off but from time to time we will not make in time and experience some down time. Upper Henrici has more troubles than just powering, and we have not been able to allocate resources to investigate but should be able to this weekend. This Henrici, Creek up to Seal Ct. Tomorrow we will be working with contractors to get mainline back up in the areas where PGE has restored power. We will also be investigating Grasle to see why we have outage still lingering. I will update tomorrow morning with the where we will be working.The challenge for us is most of our sites and coax nodes are on side streets and they are going to be last to have power restored.
We were able to get most of node 117 (Springwater/Redland rd) up. However, our power supply suffered damage and it will be a while until it can be repaired. Thankfully, we have a member who is nice enough to let us plug in to their well house, so we are up.
The team is focusing on following PGE where they are making repairs. I am sorry, but we do not have specific areas currently. We also have contractors assisting and we hope to have Harding Rd and Eaden back up by tomorrow.
Also, more generators will be here today and we should be able to get more plant on temporary power. The important thing to note on temporary power is that generators lasts up to 6 hours. We try to get back to them before they go out but sometimes they go down before a tech gets to it.
As it stands, the plant is on generators in the following areas:
- Mattoon Rd powering Fischers mill to Ridge and up to Kimball Rd
- Dillman power half of Henrici
- Hattan which is power to Fischers Mill
- Most of Hattan, however is off power
- Elida Rd which is powering Redland, Elida and Norman
Once we have more generators, we will place on at Creek Rd, which will power Henrici to Seal Ct and Creek Rd.
Thank you for your patience and continue support!