SALT LAKE CITY— A Rocky Mountain Energy outage in Salt Lake Metropolis impacted over 6,000 prospects Wednesday morning…all due to a squirrel.
Jasen Lee with Rocky Mountain Energy defined the small, woodland creature was guilty for the outage.
We’re conscious of an influence outage affecting 6,136 prospects in SLC, Utah. The reason for the outage is at the moment beneath investigation and we estimate energy will likely be restored by 1:00pm. For updates, please textual content OUT to 759677 or go to https://t.co/5KJ7zd0MQ1. We respect your endurance.
— Rocky Mountain Energy UT (@RMP_Utah) March 23, 2022
By 11:00 a.m. energy was restored.
Up to date @ 11:00am: We now have restored service to all prospects affected by the outage attributable to animal interference SLC, UT as of 10:39am. In case you are nonetheless experiencing an outage after resetting your major breakers, please go to https://t.co/5KJ7zd0MQ1 or textual content “OUT” to 759677.
— Rocky Mountain Energy UT (@RMP_Utah) March 23, 2022