Survey: Damage Assessment Key to Effective Outage Restoration

摘要

The number and severity of weather events seem to be increasing each year. During the summer, many states endured record heat waves, droughts and wildfires. Others were hard hit by severe thunderstorms—many with little or no warning. These events caused power outages and hardships for electricity providers and their customers. Nevertheless, the events appear mild compared with Hurricane Sandy, which left more than 8 million customers without power as it traveled up the East Coast in late October.