Power restored to more than 1,200 in west Columbia
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
More than 1,200 Columbia utility customers in west Columbia were without power on Tuesday afternoon.
Power was restored by 2:53 p.m. According to the Columbia Power and Light outage map, there were 1,259 outages reported at 2:25 p.m., 1,244 of which was reported in a neighborhood west of Scott Boulevard and south of Rainbow Trout Drive. The remaining 15 outages were unrelated to that outage, according to a city utility spokesman.
“There was an issue with a lightning arrester -- which shields lines from power surges like lightning,” Columbia Utilities spokesman Matt Nestor wrote in an email to ABC 17 News.
