Columbia outage affects roughly 1,500
Columbia Water and Light confirms power has been restored to all customers in Columbia after several outages left hundreds without electrical service Friday. The city says winds knocked a large tree onto distribution lines, causing the hours-long outages.
Power has been restored to all residents! Winds caused a large tree to fall across distribution lines causing outages. Thank you to our crews for restoring power and our customers for being so awesome, patient and understanding!
— Columbia Water&Light (@CoMoWaterLight) April 20, 2019
Friday evening there were as many as eight outages affecting at least 1,300 customers. Several of the outages happened near 8 p.m. Friday, less than 15 minutes after Columbia Water & Light tweeted it had restored power to 400 customers in the southwestern portion of the city.
Update at 7:45 pm: power has been restored to about 400 customers and we still have approx. 1,100 without power. Thanks for your patience and understanding while our crews still work to restore all power. Report outages at 573-875-2555 & visit https://t.co/YdwqNhMk63 to report. pic.twitter.com/JktQB3J3Rb
— Columbia Water&Light (@CoMoWaterLight) April 20, 2019
Columbia Water & Light says high winds caused the earlier outage on Friday that left at least 1,537 customers without power in southwest Columbia.
Update at 6:55 pm: there are still approx. 1,500 customers without power due to high winds. We appreciate your patience as our crews work to restore all power. Please call 573-875-2555 to report outages and view outages at https://t.co/YdwqNhMk63. pic.twitter.com/hhdCg9jpgB
— Columbia Water&Light (@CoMoWaterLight) April 19, 2019
The Columbia Outage Map says the earlier outage apparently started at 5:24 p.m. on Friday. At the time, the map also showed a second outage, affecting two customers.
