Thousands Lose Power In Thursday Night Storms

January 22, 2016

Thousands of people lost power as a storm system moved through the area Thursday night.

The entire cities of Atmore, Flomaton and Bay Minette reportedly lost power about 10:50 p.m. due to the storms. Many customers had their power restored by 11:30 p.m., while hundreds more remained in the dark until early Friday morning.

After the height of the storms, Gulf Power reported about 5,500 customers without power in Escambia County, including a large outage on Perdido Key and about 140 customers on West Kingsfield Road west of County Road 97.

Highway 31 in Flomaton was closed from Bondurant Lumber to Hurricane Park for several hours while first responders cleared downed trees and power lines. Highway 31 was back open at 1:15 a.m.

Hundreds of EREC customers lost power, including a large area along Highway 97 north of Walnut Hill, Arthur Brown Road, Highway 99A , Highway 97A and surrounding areas. The outage was traced to loose wire on a pole at the Walnut Hill Fire Station. Power was restored to Walnut Hill area customers by about 1:30 a.m.

Pictured: An Escambia River Electric Cooperative lineman works to repair a power line along Highway 97 in front of the Walnut Hill Fire Station about 1:15 a.m. Friday. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.

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One Response to “Thousands Lose Power In Thursday Night Storms”

  1. Galvygirl on January 23rd, 2016 7:48 pm

    Hooray for the Gulf Power folks, working all night long to get our power back on!

    I think we had a transformer blow and,, when I called it in, they told me that the crews were working in Beulah, but would be out ASAP.

    True to their word, about 2 AM, they had it fixed!!!

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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