By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
St. Joseph residents experience a near city wide power outage early this morning, which was mostly resolved within a couple hours.
Evergy Spokesperson Courtney Lewis says just before 4'o clock this morning a breaker failed at one of the substations in St. Joseph
"That caused a pretty big outage, 29,000 customers were without power, almost all city wide," Lewis tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "Our crews got out there, they identified the problem, and they got to work restoring power."
"It was a pretty big outage, and it took a couple of hours to get everyone back on, but all of our customers were restored by 6:45 this morning."
Evergy reported 47 total outages in St. Joseph with seven in Country Club, and three in Savannah. Lewis says crews did a good job getting power restored quickly.
"We understand that it's a tough time of the morning, with people getting ready to start their day, but our crews were out there, they identified the problem, and they had everyone back on before 7' o clock this morning," Lewis says.
The power outage forced the cancellation of school within the St. Joseph Public Schools and Savannah.
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