Folks, since my reach has been throttled, please help me get this amplified so that the press can finally start asking the right questions. It's 4 pm on the 7th day of this outage and we've got at least 30 trucks (including 20+ linemen bucket trucks) in a church parking lot, just sitting and waiting to be assigned to an outage. They've been there ALL DAY.
NES: What is the point of pulling all these linemen away from their families if you're processes are so deeply broken that you can't even figure out where to deploy them?
This is just one of multiple rows of linemen sitting and waiting for NES to tell them where to go:
@NESpower The outage tracker website you promised is finally live and it doesn’t even work. I’ve typed in countless addresses and street names. Keep gettin the message: “Address not found. Please check the address and try again”
@GovBillLee@myTDOT@TennesseeEMA Can you please come help our Nashvilles power outage situation? We are getting no updates on when we can expect power to return and it’s obvious that our government and power service is overmatched.