Monday, December 19, 2016

Power outage: Too close for comfort...

It got rather cold in this Amsterdam
residence before power was restored
last night
Losing electrical power is normally an inconvenience- but the situation yesterday was downright dangerous.

Late in the afternoon power went off affecting over 400 residences in the Merwin, Amsterdam and Amoret area, along with a few Facebook reports that part of Adrian was affected as well.

As fate would have it, we had sub freezing temperatures to boot, leaving families huddled together or scrambling to a neighbor with power, all while pipes began to freeze.

While it's not clear exactly what the chain of events were to cause the outage, one issue was a fallen power line just south of Merwin which also caused a small grass fire as well.

It was reported this morning that some in the Amoret area were still without power as late as 4 am today due to a separate incident.



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