Power outage in Asheville

10-14-2007

There was a power outage yesterday, Sat the 13th, at the cities White Fawn tower on Beaucatcher ridge. Our service in Asheville was down from @5:40 pm until @11:40 pm. I was told by a USCell tech who was on the scene some trees had fallen or been knocked onto the power lines.
Evidently the city-owned generator which is supposed to provide backup power for us doesn't work. Our new backup battery at the site lasted about 2 hours which is very good considering all the radios and hardware we have there. And also considering it's intended to just cover the possible brief period between an outage and when the generator kicks in.
If the generator did fail some city communication services were down too and I assume they'll be investigating. I'll also call them to investigate and confirm it's working.


-sh