Friday, June 27, 2008

Cranberry goes dark

Friday at noon, Cranberry was struck with a rather large power outage that affected residential and commercial buildings as well as traffic lights. The culprit turned out to be a blown transformer on Rochester Road. KDKA has more:

Utility crews are working to restore electricity to customers affected by a major power outage in the Cranberry area.

While overnight storms downed tree limbs and power lines across the area, leaving thousands of people without power, this latest outage doesn't appear to be weather-related.

Officials tell KDKA that a blown transformer at a substation on Rochester Road is apparently to blame for this widespread outage.

The power was restored about 30 minutes later.

2 comments:

Jeff Bearer said...
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Jeff Bearer said...

Thanks to Westinghouse, Cranberry Woods now has a multiple power feeds from different power grids. Which means that my office kept power and my Friday afternoon wasn't pure hell recovering from a power outage.

I guess more robust power is my pay off for the traffic I'm going to have to deal with when Westinghouse moves in.