9/9/17 Wide Spread Power Outage from MT. View - Volcano, Hawaii
Aloha from Volcano Inn!
This morning we had a power outage that affected a huge amount of people in east Hawaii, Big Island.
Here at Volcano Inn, we were in the middle of our "free breakfast" hour and had a bunch of guests here in our common area when it happened. Luckily they took it well, some of them even enjoyed it! (I was replying to an email when the whole computer shut off!)
Check out our VLOG to see what happened!
Timeline:
- 8:24am Power Out during our guests' free breakfast
- 8:30 - 8:51 On HOLD with electric company
- 8:52 HELCO (electric company) answers. Updates me that they do not know what happened, but someone was sent out to check it out, but hadn't arrived yet. Asked if there was anywhere I could check for updates, HELCO representative said there is no place where I could check for updates, but I could call again to check on the status.
- 9:30 Heard that the power outage was due to a car accident that happened 20 miles down the road, car smashed into electric post
- 10:10 Power back up and running !
Thanks for checking out our post!