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North of county left in dark by power failure
Published Wednesday, May 21, 2008
NATCHEZ —The failure of a single power line knocked out power for a large portion of Adams County Tuesday night.
The outage extended out US Highway 84 and north of Burger King on U.S. 61, said Adams County Supervisor S.E. “Spanky” Felter,
“There’s a lot of people on that one line. I guess it shows you how important that one line is,” he said.
Entergy supervisor Travis Leggett said the outage was caused when one of the pieces holding the power lines together malfunctioned, and that the power company would be proactive in finding out what caused it.
“We’re going to send them off to have them tested because the worst thing that could happen is two weeks from now is one of the other sleeves up there could fail,” he said.
All three sleeves would be replaced Tuesday night Leggett said.
“When something like this happens our first concern is public safety. The line looks harmless but it could be deadly,” he said.
Leggett also said that around three-fourths of the customers affected had power restored by 10:30 p.m. According to their service records, 346 customers were still without power and would be for several more hours.
“We have a nursing home out of lights and I want to get them back on a soon as we can,” he said.
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Posted by speakup (anonymous) on May 21, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)
where is a old folks home out there?
Posted by wifetoone (anonymous) on May 21, 2008 at 6:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The jeffersonian apts behind Burger King
Posted by sayitloud (anonymous) on May 21, 2008 at 7:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
In a nursing home I'm sure it is more than just lights that those people need on!
Posted by Teach4Peace (anonymous) on May 21, 2008 at 8:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Hoepfully a facility like a nursing home would have back up generators.
Posted by fire39212 (anonymous) on May 21, 2008 at 9:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
That's what i was thinking teach4peace....
Posted by grrbrts (anonymous) on May 21, 2008 at 9:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Never heard of a faulty "bullet" before, if that was the cause.
Posted by eagle (anonymous) on May 21, 2008 at 10:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Check your headline ND the way it is written the power was out in another county.
Posted by opinsab (anonymous) on May 21, 2008 at 10:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Yep thank goodness they went off not 10 mins after idol went off. So we got to finish watching it!! then we had to go and proch sit for a couple of hours. But it was nice.
Posted by John (anonymous) on May 21, 2008 at 3:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I don't know if this was the same power outage as reported here, but I heard of a recent one at a local nursing home. For 4 hours the power was out, except for minimal lights in the halls. Even the nurse call buttons didn't work.
But the most destrurbing thing is that during that 4 hour period, no one patrolled the halls checking on the residents to see if they were ok. And no explanation was given about the lack of attention by the personnel in that nursing home during the outage.
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