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8/29/2014
By Tom Marshall
Senior Advocate writer
Last week’s thunderstorms led to widespread power outages and isolated flooding throughout the county.
A lightning strike last Thursday afternoon caused an outage that affected a total of bit more than 1,100 customers, said Cliff Feltham, a spokesman for Kentucky Utilities.
The transformer was included in a short list of equipment that was damaged from the strike, Feltham said.
He said the Mt. Sterling outage affected 380 customers who lost power for about an hour beginning at 2:36 p.m.
Among those losing power were the county courthouse, the courthouse annex, the Mt. Sterling Police Dept., the Montgomery County Health and Civic Center and several downtown businesses.
The Camargo power restoration came about in two stages, Feltham said.
The first section of 610 customers came back in about an hour and a half, he said, while the final two customers had power restored a little after 7:40 p.m. after all the equipment was repaired.
Clark Energy reported scattered outages in the Jeffersonville, Hope and Bunker Hill area last Thursday with service restored by 7:30 p.m., Clark Energy spokesperson Lois Hatton said.
Individual outages were reported by Clark Energy on East Fork, Hope-Means and Levee roads on Friday with power restored by 9:30 p.m.
The power outages also knocked out traffic lights at various locations throughout the county.
The Friday evening storm drenched much of the county with heavy rain.
Between 7 and 8 p.m. there was flooding reported in the 4900 block of Levee Road, the Sawmill Road-Norman Road area, Cream Alley Road, Camargo-Levee Road, the Sawmill Road-Levee Road area near the site of the old Fireside Gallery building and Hinkston Pike at Garden Springs subdivision.
The water quickly receded within about half an hour, 911 Dispatch Center Supervisor Rob Kiskaden said.
“The water came and went back down pretty quick,” Kiskaden said.
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