The power outage was due to an old electric pole that snapped in half in front of our building in Playa Encuentro. It is amazing that there is only one line from Sosua (or probably Puerto Plata) all the way to Sabaneta (or beyond). They had two crane trucks and a dozen or so guys working here until it was fixed, around 6:00 pm yesterday...they did a typical "Dominican" job replacing the pole...leaving the main transformer and several cables on the old broken pole and crossing two of the main power lines from the new pole to the next pole in the line towards Cabarete. Oh...and they smashed our water main pipes while putting in the new pole, even though they were warned by our watchie where our pipes were...they did fix it though...