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Archive Home > 2006 > July > 04 > Lightning cuts area's power

Lightning cuts area's power

By Christopher Stollar / The Bulletin
July 4, 2006

Lightning left about half of Pacific Power's 65,000 Bend customers without power on Monday night, according to Bekki Witt, a company spokeswoman.

Lightning hit one of the main transmission lines at the Pilot Butte substation at 5:23 p.m., Witt said, knocking out seven other substations and....

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