Black Out
Dalton Beightel, asst. online editor
October 17, 2011
Filed under News, Top Stories
Was the electricity playing opossum this morning? Many students woke up to darkness this morning when the electricity went out all over the city of Holton.
“The problem was with Westar,” Corey Schuetz, crewman for the Distribution Center said, “There was a opossum that got into a breaker and burnt it up.”
“The breaker at the power plant was burned up and kept kicking Westar off,” Schuetz said.
Power went off at about 5:40 AM, and it took about an hour for most of the city to regain power.
“The one bad circuit had to be bypassed and power was restored to the rest of the city around 7:00 AM,” Schuetz said.
Some students woke up, found out that there was no power, and went back to bed. Others may just not have gotten up, simply because their alarm clock didn’t go off. Everyone else got ready in the dark.
“I had to get ready by candle light,” said Nicole Darveaux, 10, “It was hard but I managed.”
For many, power was needed to make breakfast but they found other things to eat. Others just simply went without. Even without power, community members got ready for work and school, just in the dark.
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