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Resident reports nighttime power repair, 2019

Also Beaver Island November 2019 power repair

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TypeEvent
Date2019-11-23
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2019-11-23
Kind
Service restoration
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
infrastructureutilitiespublic-safetycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

On November 23, 2019, a Beaver Island forum participant reported that Mike McDonough and Great Lakes Energy repaired a power problem at night, roughly 30 minutes after it was reported. Another participant echoed the thanks.

Evidence limits

This is a short contemporaneous resident account, not a Great Lakes Energy outage log or work order. It does not establish the location, cause, extent, duration, customer count, or whether the incident affected the wider island.

Sources

  1. BradG thanked Mike McDonough and Great Lakes Energy, saying that McDonough came out at night about 30 minutes after the report and fixed the problem. A second reply endorsed the thanks. This is a brief contemporaneous resident account; it does not establish the outage area, cause, duration, number of affected customers, or whether the repair was a utility-wide response.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 14 · t014873

Added 10 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Resident reports nighttime power repair, 2019”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-power-repair-november-2019/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Power Out,” November 23–24, 2019..

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