Pam Blackburn was on a work Zoom call at her home when the power went out. A crew putting in telecommunication company Suddenlink’s infrastructure hit an underground electric line in the Louisburg resident’s yard. Blackburn said she was without power from 9 am. to 4 p.m. that day. The next day, the crew hit the underground power line again, knocking out her electricity for a second time. Blackburn, who works from home, told the Louisburg City Council at its Monday, March 21 meeting that the outages cost her two days of work. To make matters worse, her 91-year-old father was with her during the second outage, she said. “It’s 40 degrees outside and my house is completely cold, and they don’t know when they are going to get the electricity back on,” Blackburn said.
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