Customers in the Sapphire, Bear Lake, Conestee Falls, and East Fork areas may face a brief outage as operation crews work to isolate these areas from the larger outage from Duke Energy.

We were going fast and not watching carefully enough,” said Laura Hogshead, chief operating officer of the state’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency.

When something hasn’t happened in more than a century, you can understand why it’s not top of mind for some folks. And then ...