Restored Doesn't Mean Normal

When the last customer is picked up, the pressure drops. The phones slow down. It feels finished.

But a feeder restored through a tie is in an abnormal configuration. Load is sitting on equipment that wasn't planned to carry it long term. Protection may be seeing a system it wasn't set for. The next switching decision, and the one after that, now starts from a different place.

Good operators keep track of the abnormal state until normal is restored: what was moved, what it's riding on now, what has to happen to put it back, and what would change if load climbs or another event lands nearby.

A future Decision Lab picks up hours after a transfer that was the right call at the time, and asks what's changed since.