When I lived downtown, we regularly had power outages despite being able to see both Georgia Power hq and Southern Company hq from our roof. It wasn't just us. The World of Coca-Cola, the Center for Civil Rights, and the surrounding buildings frequently lost power. Only the Georgia Aquarium and the Inforum/ACA were spared due to their highly redundant backup power generators. I had less power outages in rural Alabama than I did in downtown Atlanta. For whatever reason the power grid was very fragile in that part of town. I've been told it's because Georgia Power didn't actually build a grid but used a cheaper hub and spoke trunk system. No idea if that's correct but it was shameful how poor their service was in the shadow of their headquarters (and the shadow of their parent company).

In Georgia I’ve seen more gasoline outages than electrical outages for over a decade.