Manninglive.com launched mid-January, and flew under the radar for a couple of weeks.
That’s how we wanted it. A soft launch, as they call it, would allow us to work out the kinks and see what worked and what didn’t.
We were still finding our way when we were bombarded by not one, but two ice storms, two weeks apart. The first was merely an “appetizer” for the second one, which left more than 12,000 in Clarendon County without power. Some remained without power for more than 10 days.
Altogether, Santee Electric Cooperative and Duke Progress Energy had 20,000 Clarendon County customers without power during the first night of the storm in mid-February.
Schools stayed closed for that entire week after the storm hit Tuesday morning.
And throughout it all, our readers kept up with closings and power updates through manninglive.com.
