{"id":91553,"date":"2014-12-08T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=91553"},"modified":"2020-08-20T17:55:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T07:55:48","slug":"storms-cause-widespread-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/12\/08\/storms-cause-widespread-blackouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms Cause Widespread Blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 8, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon&#8217;s thunderstorms left thousands of homes without power for several hours at various locations throughout the South Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>A blackout hit Yarraman about 2:20pm forcing the bank, IGA Supermarket and hotels to close their doors. Power came back on about 3:40pm after Ergon Energy crews re-energised the Nanango and Yarraman sub-stations, restoring power to about 12,000 customers.<\/p>\n<p>Ergon has also restored power from the Murgon sub-station, reconnecting about 7000 customers in the Murgon, Cherbourg, Goomeri, Proston and Wondai areas who had been left in the dark due to faults on sub-transmission lines.<\/p>\n<p>About 600 customers in the Kilkivan area who lost power have also been reconnected.<\/p>\n<p>About 500 customers on the Cooyar feeder remained without supply until Ergon crews could check on reports of a damaged power pole at Maidenwell.<\/p>\n<p>At 4:00pm, about 900 Ergon Energy customers east of Kingaroy, about 1000 in the Biggenden region and 2000 in the Mundubbera and Eidsvold areas still had their power supply affected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: Power on the Cooyar feeder was restored at 6:47pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon&#8217;s thunderstorms left thousands of homes without power for several hours at various locations throughout the South Burnett. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":32012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[32],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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