Its interesting to find out what the all the utilities do for large events like this. Do they put bodies onsite for immediate response, have people staged at the nearest company facility or just treat these events like any other customer and tell them to call 1-888-get-help if there is an outage?

There could almost be a little village with hydro, natural gas, telco/cell providers, city sewer and water, backup generator techs etc if everybody wants to have a few crews on site.