Nashville Electric Service (NES) was preparing for a snowstorm until a day and a half before last weekend’s devastating winter weather hit Middle Tennessee, according to CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin on Friday. That’s even as meteorologists had been warning about the possibility of ice for days before that.
The revelation comes as Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell announced Monday he’s forming a commission to investigate the utility’s response to the storm that left hundreds of thousands without power.
“I will tell you with this storm, it did shift; we were expecting to get a snowstorm with a little bit of ice up until about a day and a half before it came into our service territory,” Broyles-Aplin said Friday at a press conference. “So it went from getting a little bit of snow to getting an enormous amount of ice that blanketed our entire service territory at that point that our team learned — they had staged for a snowstorm.”…