Winter’s sudden arrival brings power outages
Steve Miller of Mission Valley Power prepared for "a very long day" last Wednesday when heavy wet snow knocked out power in Polson for three hours. (Kristi Niemeyer/Lake County Leader)
“Winter hit all of a sudden when fall wasn’t quite done,” says Jean Matt, general manager of Mission Valley Power, of the storm that left a portion of Polson without power for three hours last Wednesday morning.
As a consequence, wet heavy snow weighed down trees that still had leaves, which led laden branches to drop on power lines, blowing protective fuses and triggering outages...
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