A big ice storm has left many of us in MI without power. I live in the largest city without power, where the most outages occurred, and I am watching other places get restored one by one, but we still don’t have power. (going on 4 days now). How do they decide who gets power back first? I thought we would get restored rather quickly since we live in a more populated area, but others who are in smaller suburbs, and even some in rural areas have power back and we don’t. Our whole neighborhood was out, and now several streets near us have power back, but we don’t.
I know that if a power line gets knocked down, they go there first because it’s dangerous, and that some companies and buildings (like hospitals) take precedence, but does anyone know how they decide after that?