I’m pleased they replied to my e-mail:

John,

We are aware of the outages and found and corrected the problems on that circuit. Several poles and pieces of equipment had been damaged by lightning. It took a while before they failed causing the brief outages by operating the substation breaker. All problems were fixed by yesterday afternoon.

However, today a squirrel got onto an underground riser and blew up a cutout and lightning arrestor. This caused the breaker to operate today.

If you have any additional questions, don’t hesitate to call me.

Larry Otto