diff --git a/scl.py b/scl.py
index f0f8a55..3c143f9 100644
--- a/scl.py
+++ b/scl.py
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ with Session(engine) as session:
                 # Used to determine the maximum number of people affected by this outage, to determine if it's worth posting about
                 existing_record.max_num_people = event["numPeople"]
             max_event_class = classify_event_size(existing_record.max_num_people)
-            if existing_record.outage_geometries != outage_geometries:
+            if shapely.equals(existing_record.outage_geometries, outage_geometries):
                 print(
                     "Geometries modified. Equals: {}, DE-9IM: {}, Within: {}".format(
                         outage_geometries.equals(existing_record.outage_geometries),