One - A capacity emergency exists in the FPC service area and there is a high probability of an outage. Phase Two - FPC is buying power from outside resources in hopes that this will satisfy the power requirements beyond their ability to supply. Phase Three - A power interruption is imminent. Schools are requested to review their preparedness plans and monitor the SENS box. This allows schools to take more advanced actions to prepare students, teachers, and parents.
Some schools are able to send notices to parents to ensure they are dressed accordingly.
Schools need to be sensitive about how the information is presented. Parents need to know about the potential for an outage, but should not misunderstand the alert. Often times there will be no outage, even when a high probablility was given. If parents decided to keep their children home, based on the probability warning, they may be causing their child to miss a day of school unnecessarily. We only know the surety of an outage when it actually happens.