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Durham NC power outage: Duke Energy customers without electricity Saturday
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — More than 7,000 Duke Energy customers in Durham were without power for a couple hours early Saturday afternoon.
According to Duke Energy’s outage map, a large area approximately between Roxboro Street and Fayetteville Road north of Interstate 40 was without electricity from just before noon Saturday until about 2:15 p.m.
The map also showed that a small area south of I-40 was affected.
According to the map, the outage was caused by “a vehicle damaging our equipment.”
As of just before 2 p.m., the estimated time of restoration was 3:30 p.m. Saturday. But by 2:16 p.m., the incident had disappeared from the outage map.
CBS 17 has reached out to Duke Energy for more information.
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