| Published: 10:55 PM, 06/27/2008 |
Author: Staff Report
Source: The Newport Plain Talk
COSBY-A severe thunderstorm is to blame for a
power out in the Cosby area of Newport Utilities' electric system, which left
more than 1,500 customers without power Thursday afternoon.
Shortly
after 5 p.m. a transmission line service was interrupted to NU's Cosby
Substation. The storms caused a tree to fall on the TVA transmission line. In
addition, lightning caused failures at the substation. NU employees, along with
TVA, located the tree and removed it from the line.
After the
transmission line was restored, crews discovered lightning had damaged two
essential pieces of equipment in the Cosby Substation. Once the pieces of
equipment were isolated, power was restored to most customers by 11 p.m. Other
customers remained without power until 1 a.m. when crews repaired a pole
damaged by the lightning.
Newport
Utilities sincerely appreciates the patience of its customers in the Cosby area
during the lengthy outage.
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