Power Outage in Rock Hill 6/12 at 9.35pm (power lines, house)

[schun22]

So, what caused the outage?

[clemsonbrad]

I would like to know as well. My wife and I were in the movie theater and it went off right at the end of the movie!

[movingdown]

I talked to someone at the city last night who said it was a circuit problem. Not sure what that means, but it sure affected a wide area around Dave Lyle and I77.

I was pleasantly surprised that the power came back on in about 90 minutes. I figured we were in for a long hot night.

Since we are new here, can someone tell us how often power goes out here? We had a whole house generator at our last home in the north because we lost power in ice storms. I think I remember someone saying power went out when hurricane Hugo came through years ago, but is it more frequent than that?

Thanks for any info.

[coped]

It was a snake. Snake causes power outage in Rock Hill's Manchester area | The Herald - Rock Hill, SC

[ftmillmit]

General power outages covering wide areas are pretty rare, barring another Hurricane Hugo!

That said local outages caused by a squirrel or the like shorting out a transformer are more common. If you live in an area with buried power lines, power outages are very, very rare.

[NewToYorkSC]

Ended up getting my food for free at Taco Bell, sine they had made my food, but couldn't ring me up! SWEET!!

[sandchug]

I was in Target off Dave Lyle when that happened. You wanna talk about people freaking out...try being in a department store 20 minutes before it closes when the place goes pitch black!