Posts Tagged ‘Power Outage’
Power Restored in Smyrna – Generators Helped at Polling Locations
Late this morning the Town of Smyrna posted that they were experiencing a town-wide power outage. The Talk of Delmarva was able to learn that the problem was an equipment issue. GOP Chair Julianne Murray says that voting was interrupted, but generators were in place quickly at the three polling locations affected in Smyrna. Just…
Read MoreSunday Morning Power Outage – Long Neck & Angola Areas & Crash
UPDATED – 7:40am – ALL power has been restored ================================================================= UPDATED – 5:52am – Over half of those without power have been restored – mainly in the Angola area. Just over 6300 remain without power. ================================================================= About 12,200 Delaware Electric Cooperative members are without power this morning in the Long Neck and Angola areas. Power…
Read MoreUPDATED: Power Outages the Early AM Wake-up for Bridgeville & Lewes
About 2000 people in Bridgeville were without power for a time this morning. Power went out around 6:30am and Delmarva Power spokesman Timothy Stokes tells WGMD, “Our operations team shared with me that we did experience an outage in the Bridgeville area this morning at 6:30 a.m., impacting 2,068 customers. The outage was caused by…
Read MoreUPDATED & BREAKING: Numerous Power Outages Following Storms
We’re getting reports of numerous power outages across Kent County, following a line of storms that triggered a Severe Thunderstorm Warning on Wednesday evening. Since 7 p.m., we’ve received reports of wires down in Felton, at Kenton Road, Highland Road, Upper King Road and Lochmeath Way in Dover, as well as in Clayton, Camden-Wyoming and…
Read MoreTransformer Problem the Cause of Power Outage Saturday Morning
Nearly 6000 residents from West Ocean City to Newark to just west of Berlin lost power Saturday just after 11am.Ā Over 5500 were customers of Delmarva Power ā and about 470 members of Choptank Electric Cooperative.Ā According to Choptankās Facebook page, Delmarva Power was having problems with a transformer that feeds the Ironshire Substation.Ā Delmarva…
Read MoreUPDATED: Power Outage in Ocean Pines & Berlin Areas
UPDATED – 12:15pm – The power is coming back to residents in Ocean Pines and the Friendship area of Berlin.Ā Choptank Electric officials on their Facebook page say the heavy load for lights and heat caused a breaker to open.Ā Power is being restored a little at a time, but should be restored to everyone…
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