Power is flickering off and on. Usually doesn't stay on longer than five minutes.
The power infrastructure in Georgia is built to with stand a a stout stiff breeze and little else.
I wouldn't be too hard on the Utility, a single tree laying across the lines can disrupt power (typical of power flickering).
They can measure the resistance of the line and quickly determine where the fault lies, and dispatch a crew to fix it. But that takes time, and if there are multiple faults, they have to locate and repair them sequentially. Car accidents are another common fault source. In bad weather, you can have many hours or even days worth of work to do to restore the line.
Restarting the grid will often overload the system if multiple faults exist, making restoring power difficult until everything is in good serviceable condition.
in "normal" situations they can re-route the grid to compensate for a major failure (such as a transformer blowing at a substation), but if faults are everywhere and on the line itself, that doesn't work.
