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The night the lights went out

I experienced another first tonight.  With about 15 minutes left to go in the Sopranos I lose power.  No this isn’t the first time in my life that I’ve ever been in a power failure.  I was without power for 3 days back when hurricane Georges struck back in 1998.  This is the first time that I’ve experienced a region wide power failure.  It was similar to what happened in the north east.  A transformer tower at the power plant in Sterlington caught fire around 7:30.  It triggered an emergency shutdown of the power grid.  According to one fire dept representative, Entergy wasn’t made aware of the grid failure until the fire department arrived responding to the fire.  Needless to say, there was a blackout stretching from West Monroe to well past the Monroe Airport.  According to a local radio station, people were driving like lunatics.  Lauren called me and told me that people all down HWY165 were disregarding intersections.  KNOE AM and FM were knocked off the air somehow.  I believe the transmitter lost power because the studios are supported by a backup diesel generator.  I’ll find out why AM/FM failed tomorrow.  So tonight if only for two hours, I experienced a little piece of what they went through in the north east.

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