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Are we prepared for another outage?

Like thousands of others in Spokane, on Monday, June 28, my house lost power a little before 2 p.m., and it was not restored until after 9 p.m. My house has a basement, which stays cool, so even without air conditioning I should be safe for some time. As I am 86 years old, I was concerned if this continued. I received two calls from Avista with reports on the situation.

I read the Avista report in The Spokesman on power outages, where they were and their length. I also watched the report on TV news. Hillyard was not listed, and none of those listed had outages as long as ours, Our area outage was about 7.5 hours.

Today, I read Shawn Vestal’s article, and that is the first mention of our area by the Spokesman, though we have apartments with disabled and elderly within a mile of my home. Neither TV nor The Spokesman published advice to the elderly and those with very young children. Are we prepared for another such power outage?

Zona Spaeth

Spokane

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