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WRK//0042026
Better Than NES.
When storms knocked out power across Nashville, the utility's outage page made it hard to get answers. So I built a better one.
ROLE
Solo build, open source (MIT)
STATUS
Deployed on Netlify
FOR
Anyone in Nashville without power
YEAR
2026
The problem.
During the storm response, people needed one thing: is my outage known, and is a crew on it. The official tools buried that answer.
This is the kind of small, sharp tool I like: real data, zero friction, useful the minute it loads.
What I built.
- A live map of every active outage pulled straight from the utility's public API, with marker clustering so a thousand incidents stay readable.
- Reverse geocoding turns coordinates into street names people actually recognize.
- A stats strip answers the big questions at a glance: total outages, people affected, crews assigned, largest incident.
- Auto-refresh every three minutes, mobile-first because most users are on a phone in a dark house, and an honest disclaimer about what the status fields can and cannot tell you.
Engineering notes.
- Open source under MIT
- No backend, no accounts, no tracking. It does one thing.
- Built and shipped fast because usefulness had a deadline
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