Our power went Tues when a departing gust pushed a pine tree onto our neighbors pole barn, bringing down the power line. We noticed this when the 20 foot length or wire on the ground was on fire and the pole barn also caught. Fire dept took care of the fire. We were able to borrow a friend's generator yesterday to run a window ac.
We called Atlantic Electric, and didn't expect restoration until Fri or Sat since our outage only affected 5 households. Had a chat with AE guy in a bucket this afternoon, first time they were in our area. He was familiar with our street, also the guy they sent to do assessment this morning got stuck in mud in the alley and had to be towed out. They heard him on the radio; he's in for some chop busting.
Later this afternoon there was a tree crew here, removed the fallen tree, then 3 repair trucks. New power line took about 2 hours, back on line about 6pm.
I heart AE.