{"id":230445,"date":"2019-03-07T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T04:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=230445"},"modified":"2020-06-22T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T07:26:06","slug":"lightning-causes-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/07\/lightning-causes-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Causes Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 7, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 400 Ergon Energy customers in the East Nanango area lost power on Wednesday afternoon after a short storm whipped through parts of the South Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>Power went off about 3:45pm in areas around Mount Stanley Road, East Nanango Road and Brights Road.<\/p>\n<p>Ergon crews located the damage, believed to have been caused by a lightning strike, and made emergency repairs.<\/p>\n<p>All power was restored by about 8:45pm.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>About 30 properties in Kingaroy had their water supply turned off from about 10:30pm on Wednesday after a pipe burst in River Road.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A South Burnett Regional Council spokesperson said the split pipe was located under a concrete driveway.<\/p>\n<p>Council crews worked through the night to repair the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Water supplies were restored to houses in River Road and Youngman Street about 5:00am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 400 Ergon Energy customers in the East Nanango area lost power on Wednesday afternoon after a short storm whipped through parts of the South Burnett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":102470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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