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Around 1,000 residents lose power in west Lincoln |
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Schools dismissed early By ALICE SMITH, Staff Writer ———————————— A car crash and cold temperatures caused about 1,000 western Lincoln County residents to lose power Thursday night, and some still remained without electricity this morning. A wreck happened at about 6:30 p.m. on Bill Ledford Road and knocked out power in the Vale area Thursday. Duke Power responded to the outage and reset the pole, said Susan Spake, director of Lincoln County Emergency Management. When the power came back on, it burned the lines in two because of the cold temperatures. Known as a “cold load,” this resulted in another outage, Spake said. Duke officials did not tell Lincoln authorities that the power remained out, Spake said. “We were not aware it was still out, or we would have done something,” Spake said. A temporary shelter could have been set up had residents needed it, she said. Spake has been in contact with Duke this morning. Because of the cold load, crews have to go to each tap and repair it individually. Duke crews were at the scene throughout the night and reportedly had nine trucks in the area this morning. At 8:30 a.m., Spake was told all power should be restored by 10:30, she said. Some freezing rain caused several other lines to fall, Spake said, but there were no other major outages. Lincoln County Schools were on a two-hour delay this morning. After arriving at school, students were dismissed at 10:15 a.m. Union Elementary School was forced to cancel school for the day because of the outage. North Carolina Department of Transportation crews have been out on Lincoln roads since 4 a.m., Spake said. A few wrecks have been reported, but officials with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said it didn’t seem like an unusual number. Spake cautions residents to be cautious when driving for the next few days because of all the moisture. “For the next couple of nights that will be re-freezing,” she said. “Expect icy patches for the next couple of days from this moisture.”
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