# Power outage in North Carolina **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 31, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500 "2017-07-31T12:05:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/21 "2017-08-03T18:31:25Z")
Here’s CNN’s update: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/us/outer-banks-power-outage/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/us/outer-banks-power-outage/index.html) We’ll be farther up the beach in Nags Head on Monday, as it happens. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/22 "2017-08-04T11:19:25Z")
power is back and people can return today at noon. They used a new overhead line to replace the buried power line. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/23 "2017-08-04T14:56:28Z")
Yup - good news!: [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article165275387.html](http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article165275387.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/24 "2017-08-04T21:47:45Z")
I learned that prior to the 60s, they only had generators on those 2 islands. No power lines connected them to the main power grid. The lines were run along with the bonner bridge which is now being replaced . (And the new bridge construction was what cut the power lines) BTW Almost all of eastern NC east of I-95 has no natural gas. People there can use propane . ---
**Author:** ![Beandip478](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Beandip478](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beandip478)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/25 "2017-08-04T23:46:46Z")
It’s a conspiracy. Any explanation that does not involve a conspiracy is not correct. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/26 "2017-08-05T03:51:19Z")
> [@Beandip478](#): > > It’s a conspiracy. Any explanation that does not involve a conspiracy is not correct. And the conspirators are…? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/27 "2017-08-05T04:00:36Z")
Duh. Obviously, the power cut was a conspiracy led by the Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds and Colonel Sanders. (Others would suggest that JFK and Elvis were responsible. But that’s just silly.) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/28 "2017-08-05T12:02:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > And the conspirators are…? Conspiring! ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/29 "2017-08-05T16:44:22Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Duh. Obviously, the power cut was a conspiracy led by the Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds **and Colonel Sanders**. (Others would suggest that JFK and Elvis were responsible. But that’s just silly.) Only before he went tits-up, of course. I hate that Colonel with his sneaky, beady eyes. And the ingredients that make you crave his chicken fortnightly… ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/30 "2017-08-05T22:30:45Z")
> [@KCB615](#): > > Only before he went tits-up, of course. > > . That would be “drumsticks up”…that is, _if he died_. Know anyone who saw the body? Think Elvis is dead? ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500/31 "2017-08-06T00:13:30Z")
[I hated Colonel Sanders](https://youtu.be/YKRFlNryaWw) Jump to 1:00 in for the relevant part. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-in-north-carolina/792500.md?page=1)