| This morning Grantsville continued to have an electricity infrastructure meltdown, experiencing its second major incident of power disruption within a week.
The Grantsville Post Office, Calhoun Banks, and numerous other businesses and residences have been without power for about three hours, with an Allegheny Power crew working on the problems around the town.
The Calhoun Bank was closed this morning on Main Street, with businesses experiencing blackouts and damaged equipment from surges.
Transformers have exploded, some catching on fire, with wires burning and falling to the ground. Last week's incident reportedly involved five large commercial transformers.
Bill Howley's "Powerline" watch-dog blog regarding proposed WV power plants with Goliath transmission towers and lines to deliver power to the eastern corridor, wrote, "Allegheny Energy needs to figure out reliability in WV before they try to fix it for NJ."
"New transmission lines to the East Coast will do nothing to help our collapsing distribution system," Howley said, reporting that the utility has long-neglected replacing electric infrastructure in the Mountain Sate, except when disasters happen.
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