Power Outage Recap, 01/09/2008
Sierra Pacific Power restored power to the Pine Grove hilltop site serving Smith Valley at approximately 4:00 pm, Tuesday January 8. Power had been out at the hilltop since 4:00 pm Friday, January 4, due to the snowstorm. The outage affected Tele-NET Wireless Internet service for Smith Valley, as well as: KSVL Radio-92.3 FM; Smith Valley Television Translators for the Reno Stations; and multiple private radio operations with facilities at the hilltop. (Troubleshooting tip: If you can't get 92.3 FM, power is probably out at the hilltop.)
We notified Sierra Pacific of the outage at 4 pm on Friday, minutes after it occurred. They were already busy with numerous residential outages and said they'd get to this one by mid-day Saturday. They were apparently unable to repair it by then, and we contacted them numerous times to let them know it was still out.
On Tuesday morning, a representative informed us that they had been unable to reach the site by road over the weekend, so they flew over it, and found two poles had snapped and two other line spans had broken due to the weight of the unusually wet and heavy snow. They spent all day Monday transporting a Caterpillar to the site and clearing the road to the hilltop. On Tuesday, repair crews were on the scene, replacing poles and splicing wires. By 4 pm, the power had been restored, and the system was again operational.
We would like to thank Sierra Pacific and its repair crews for their efforts in getting things back up and running. They worked through cold wind, rain and snow to get it done, and it couldn't have been much fun. We tip our hat to them.
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