My second concern was after watching the news this morning which reported that 10,000 customers were affected by the outage. They had a photo of what caused it. It looked like a medium size dead tree that had fallen on a single power line strung on a telephone pole. It was still resting on the line. Probably not the same area but it reminded me of the power lines we see strung along Rt 50 adjacent to the woods that seem to be trimmed to prevent such an event. I would like to think that Choptank pays enough attention to be sure dead trees near their lines are cleared especially if one incident like this can put 10,000 customers in the dark with the added risk of losing cell phone coverage thru no fault of their own.