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Your utility’s worst case is now measured in weeks.
Gary, Indiana went dark on August 11 and NIPSCO is targeting full restoration for the night of August 25. Memphis lost more than 140,000 customers on August 22, the seventh most damaging storm in that utility’s history.
Neither was an attack. A former FERC chairman’s analysis says nine substations taken out together would put the country down for eighteen months.
Your house runs on one feed, and nobody comes to it first.
On day three the freezer is a loss, and replacing it costs more than the backup power you didn’t buy.
INSIDE TONIGHT’S FULL SITREP
Guardians get the mechanics behind the eighteen-month number, the X your household is standing on, three indicators, and three moves.
Restoration estimates keep sliding.
Boil advisories follow the outage.
Out-of-state bucket trucks stage nearby.
Get a real backup power plan running this week.
Store two weeks of water per person and the means to make more.
Put the outage plan on paper and tape it inside a cabinet door.
A family with backup power and stored water rides out week two. A family without one starts hunting for both on day four.
Full breakdown, sources, and the X are below the paywall for Guardians.
