Ken WebbCLEVELAND, Tenn. – An hour long power outage left traffic snarled and thousands without power across Cleveland on Wednesday afternoon.
“We had a line fall out [at] our East Cleveland substation around 12:30 p.m. that caused eight other substations to go offline,” said Ken Webb, president and CEO of Cleveland Utilities. “This outage affected all the city’s major traffic corridors.”
The East Cleveland substation is one of two in which the electric division receives power from the Tennessee Valley Authority, according to the Cleveland Utilities’ website.
About 17,000 customers were without power during the height of the event, but most had their service restored quickly, Webb said. Within 58 minutes, electric service was restored to all customers.
Cleveland Utilities serves an estimated 39,754 electric customers, according to its website.