Hundreds of Boone Electric Cooperative members lose power

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Nearly 900 Boone Electric Cooperative members were without power at about 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon.

The utility said on Twitter that a utility adjacent to Boone had an equipment failure. Boone Electric had to cut some power to allow for safe repairs, the utility said. In another tweet at about 5 p.m., Boone said the repairs could take up to two hours.

An adjacent utility's insulator failed on their lines. We're allowing them to repair it safely as it is next to our lines. pic.twitter.com/ljsNDkgNIy

— Boone Electric Cooperative (@BooneElectric) October 24, 2022

The Boone Electric outage map showed the outage was centered in central Columbia. More than 3,300 members were cut off at the height of the outage.