Tracking power outages

beachbumdawg

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Check on folks in Tippah County. They will be out for a while. Damage at the main power plant.

When did an outage on the transmission and distribution system become the main power plant? Sucks whether it’s power generation or power delivery

Doesn’t matter how many electrons I can make if there are no wires to transport those electrons to the customer

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onewoof

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When did an outage on the transmission and distribution system become the main power plant? Sucks whether it’s power generation or power delivery

Doesn’t matter how many electrons I can make if there are no wires to transport those electrons to the customer

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Its the delivery, sorry, reading up quickly on high voltage power systems, forgive my semantics, thank you for your grace
 

patdog

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When did an outage on the transmission and distribution system become the main power plant? Sucks whether it’s power generation or power delivery

Doesn’t matter how many electrons I can make if there are no wires to transport those electrons to the customer

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Would be a lot better and easier to deal with if the power plant was damaged than this. TVA could just shift power from another plant and/or buy it on the open market. All utilities do this routinely when plants go down for maintenance.
 
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onewoof

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the warm gulf air from the Gulf of America saved our tails on this one for the Jackson Metro area, as well as north Alabama
 
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Lowdog

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I ran into 2 guys in the Jackson Ms metro. They said they were maintenance workers for a fleet of 60 trucks that had recently arrived from Canada. They were power linemen. It took 24hrs for them to get here.
 
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onewoof

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Seriously buy these guys lunch, dinner, breakfast at wherever they want
 

Willow Grove Dawg

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My mom & step-dad are in Blue Springs (northern tip of Pontotoc County) and have not had power since Sunday about 2:30 AM. The PEPA website showed 19,000 customers without power Sunday mid-morning out of 21,000 total customers. They are down to 9200 customers without power this evening.

I checked the Tippah County Power Association website and it looks like the entire county has been without power since Sunday morning.
 
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patdog

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My mom & step-dad are in Blue Springs (Pontotoc County) and have not had power since Sunday about 2:30 AM. The PEPA website showed 19,000 customers without power Sunday mid-morning out of 21,000 total customers. They are down to 9200 customers without power this evening.

I checked the Tippah County Power Association website and it looks like the entire county has been without power since Sunday morning.
It’s bad. Everyone talks about Oxford and they did get devastated. But think far northeast MS may have gotten it even worse but no one can post pictures so few really know about it.
 
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TroyMcClure2025

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My mom & step-dad are in Blue Springs (northern tip of Pontotoc County) and have not had power since Sunday about 2:30 AM. The PEPA website showed 19,000 customers without power Sunday mid-morning out of 21,000 total customers. They are down to 9200 customers without power this evening.

I checked the Tippah County Power Association website and it looks like the entire county has been without power since Sunday
It’s bad. Everyone talks about Oxford and they did get devastated. But think far northeast MS may have gotten it even worse but no one can post pictures so few really know about it.
Correct. Way worse but they don’t have pastures with trees in the middle of a campus in Tippah County*