(Undated)– Residents in some parts of the region spent a part of Wednesday afternoon without power. Brian Scott, Superintendent of Field Operations for Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative, says that actually wasn’t weather-related…
Scott says outages caused by the storm itself were fairly isolated for ILEC…
He says most of those were the result of tree limbs coming down on power lines.
Federated Rural Electric, based out of Jackson, reported more in the way of damage to its system. Operations Manager George Madden says they had 10 poles go down, all of them along 460th Avenue in Jackson county, just north of County Road 4. He says a grain bin and machine shed at a farm site in that same area were also damaged. Madden says crews made temporary repairs and power was restored to the affected area around 11:30 pm. He says crews today (Thurs.) are replacing the poles that were snapped off.
Madden says they also had an outage that affected more than 1,100 members in southern Jackson county when a transmission line failed during the storm, affecting four substations.
