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what took them so long to restore power in some situations. Mr. Blanton said they also lost all forms of communication other than their radios. Mr. Blanton said TXU maintains a priority list for power restoration which was communications, public. water supply and hospitals along with customers identified as having breathing machines. He also said they have a priority list and he would like to see the city's priority list. Mr. Blanton explained their plan for trimming trees, which is trimming them for a five year growth' and try to get all the trees out they can. On a question asked by Councilman McCarthy, Mr. Blanton explained that once a storm hit over one -half million dollars for them in expenses, there is insurance that will cover the cost from the storm, so the customers will not be affected. Mr. Blanton said he can not say enough about the Police Department and Fire Department for what they did in helping locating lines and downed tree limbs and reporting those to the TXU crews, and they should be highly commended. Tim Master, General Manager of Cox Communications, came forward telling the City Council that they basically experienced the same difficulties that everyone in the room did from the ice storm. He said at one point, they were totally down in their cable system because they lost power at their main office and their backup generator failed. Mr. Master said they were able to acquire another generator and get the system back up. Mr. Master said to give a scope of what they were dealing with, they did not lose main line hard cable, which is the trunks and feeder lines in the system, but they were affected in two primary areas. They were affected with power as they have over 100 commercial power locations in their system in Paris and on top of that, they lost over 2,000 service drops from the poles to homes and that in itself ,coordinating where to place generators to try to get customers back on that once their power was back on and trying to keep that all coordinated and getting contractors in, and additional staff to help and trying to restore service as soon as possible was a monumental task. Mr. Master said at this point in time, they are have come along ways, but they are still receiving individual calls of service drops, but it as slowed down tremendously in the last few days. Mr. Master also advised the City Council that they also have insurance that will cover the cost of the damages to their - system and the customers will not be affected.