Power outage affects homes in west Columbia for seven hours. | Mid-Missouri News - KOMU 8
Power outage affects homes in west Columbia for seven hours. | Mid-Missouri News | komu.com
Power has been restored to west Columbia after an outage that lasted more than seven hours.
About 1,200 homes were initially without power Saturday morning, according to Columbia Water and Light.
"Crews have been dispatched and are working to fix the issue as quickly as possible," Columbia Water and Light said in a
Around 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon, about 406 customers were still experiencing the power outage, according to the City of Columbia public outage map.
At about 5:00 p.m. the outage map said that homes and customers were no longer affected by loss of power.
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