- Date
- 2020-10-08
- Kind
- Service outage
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- infrastructureutilitiescommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On October 8, 2020, a resident reported what appeared on the Great Lakes Energy outage map to be an island-wide power outage. The same resident reported that power returned about seven minutes later.
Evidence limits
The report establishes a brief observed interruption but not its geographic extent, cause, affected customers, or utility-confirmed duration.
Sources
- A resident said the Great Lakes Energy outage map appeared to show the whole island without power, then reported two minutes later that power had returned. This is a contemporaneous resident observation; the archive holds no utility incident record, customer count, cause, or independent confirmation of island-wide scope.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015735
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Resident reports brief Beaver Island power outage, October 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-brief-power-outage-october-2020/, accessed [date], citing John Ackermann, “Power outage,” Beaver Island Forum, October 8, 2020..
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