UPDATE: Power outage in south Highland Park

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3:57 PM: Thanks for the tip. Power’s out as of a few minutes ago for more than 110 customers in south Highland Park. Texter says it followed a “huge bang.”

4:02 PM: The map now shows the outage affecting more than 200 customers.

6:12 PM: Map says the power’s back on; commenter JL says it was restored at 5:32 pm.

JL August 13, 2022 (4:03 pm)

2 pm City Light was driving around this same area looking for detection of a problem. I had talked with them . Guess the problem surfaced. 2 bangs. Hopefully they get the power restored. Need the power back on.

WSB August 13, 2022 (4:09 pm)

The map also shows a “planned work” outage under way all day affecting 18 customers near 4th/Olson.
Hpw August 13, 2022 (4:13 pm)

There was a utility crew working at Cambridge and 17th/Delridge when I walked by about an hour ago.

JL August 13, 2022 (4:41 pm)

Same City Light truck driving back and forth on 11th. 3 times in the last 20 minutes. That same truck took out a Comcast cable to a house across the street about 2pm. Now they have a lookout sitting in back watching the wires.

Empm August 13, 2022 (5:06 pm)

I walked out of my house just as the high voltage line they were working on contacted the regular, lower power line. The worker standing there said they “blew a fuse and would have it back on soon.”

JL August 13, 2022 (5:35 pm)

Power back on at 532 pm on 11th Ave. City Light truck went by looking at transformers.

Jesse August 13, 2022 (7:38 pm)

I heard that bang! My dog and I wondered what it was because our power stayed on the whole time. Now I know!

John Smith August 14, 2022 (1:16 am)

There have been too many SCL inadvertent wire contacts lately. I suspect the problem is that retiring SCL blue-collar workers cannot be easily replaced .