TBO.com - TBO is Tampa Bay Online

Highlands Today

BREAKING NEWS: Sporadic Homes Still Without Power Thursday

PROGRESS ENERGY WORKING ON IT

ADVERTISEMENT

By MANDY SHEETS | Highlands Today

Published: January 3, 2008

SEBRING — Progress Energy linemen are working Thursday morning to restore electricity to pockets of residents throughout the county without electricity.

Chad Demerre, lineman apprentice with Progress Energy, said small outages, affecting less than 200 customers, are common when the weather suddenly becomes cold.

"Everyone is turning on their heaters at the same time, and transformers become overloaded," said Demerre, who expects to spend today going from call to call.

About 1,000 Sebring residents in the Harder Hall area lost power about 8:30 p.m. Thursday because of the failure of an underground cable. The outage lasted about 40 minutes and was not related to the cold weather.

National Weather Service reports the low in Highlands County was 28 degrees, which was recorded in Avon Park. Sebring reached 32 degrees and Lake Placid dipped to 29 degrees. Temperatures remained at or below freezing about five hours in the early morning hours of Thursday.

Florida Citrus Mutual officials said the cold snap caused minimal damage to the citrus crop.
For a map of Progress Energy outage areas and estimated times of restorations, check out this Web site www.progress-energy.com/shared/outages/fla/index.h...

To report an outage, call 1-800-228-8485.
For the complete story, see Friday's Highlands Today.

Share this:

Loading Comments...

Email Print

ADVERTISEMENT