He said his roommate works as a programmer at a local business that relies heavily on the Internet. “I ended up setting up a personal hot spot off my phone.” “There is a connection here, but it hasn’t been very good,” he said. Many of the tables and booths were occupied by people quietly hunched over their laptop computers. Gabe Perez said he’d been using his laptop at home to research job opportunities in construction management in Texas when the power died, so he decided to head to Starbucks.
Our pipelines transport natural gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) and more. The worst of the outage centered on the north section of town, and there were smaller outage clusters scattered across the southern parts of Laramie, according to Rocky Mountain Power.Ī Starbucks on Grand Avenue near the east end of town became a gathering place for many seeking one of the city’s few remaining Wi-Fi connections. Were one of North Americas largest energy infrastructure companies. The cause of the outage was “undermined” as of Tuesday afternoon, and it was estimated that it could take until at least 1 a.m. You might be suprised by how often a service problem is solved by these two simple solutions: Double-check that all power cords and connection cables are fully. This video from 2009 in Cheyenne shows what can happen when a squirrel gets inside a substation transformer.***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter***īy Mark research efforts and other online-based activities came to an abrupt halt early Tuesday afternoon in Laramie as a massive outage hit more than 9,000 Rocky Mountain Power customers.Ĭrews were working to get the power back on to the roughly 9,700 affected customers, according to information posted on the company’s customer service portal. “When Duke workers arrived, the found the cow lying on its back, with all four legs up in the air,” the company said. In one particularly sad case, a cow barbecued itself when scratching its body on a “guy wire” next to a primary line. Some outages are difficult to detect, the company said, because “the remains are unrecognizable.” Followed by squirrels are birds, raccoons, rats, skunks, snakes, and foxes. The company ranked the animals most responsible for power issues. “Most likely, his charred body is still there.” “It’s relatively easy for technicians to discern when a critter caused an outage,” the company said. The United States Energy Information Administration estimates that squirrels are responsible for outages affecting more than 13 million people each year. Wednesday morning, Eskelsen said.Īlthough an animal was not responsible for this power outage, quite frequently they are.Īccording to Duke Energy, squirrels are most-often the culprit behind outages. The crew finished repairing the damage to the substation at about 2:30 a.m. Most customers had power by 7 p.m., and the last of them got electricity back at 10:28 p.m. in some of the affected areas – which were mostly in the northern part of Laramie. Electricity started coming back on at about 4 p.m. “We don’t expect any more problems” or further outages, he said.Ī crew began working immediately after the outage to restore power. Minute-by-minute data records from the substation should help investigators nail down a cause, he said. Hayley Crombleholme, KUTV Rocky Mountain Power has been considering a step they’ve never taken in Utah before planned power shut offs to prevent potentially inflating a. “There was some damage to some components at that substation.” He verified only that there hadn’t been any trespass (human or animal) or vandalism at the site, which is just to the north of Laramie and just east of U.S. that night.Īn exact cause for the damage hadn’t been determined as of late Wednesday Morning, David Eskelsen, a spokesman for Rocky Mountain Power’s parent company PacifiCorps, told Cowboy State Daily. Tuesday and left some of the roughly 9,800 affected Rocky Mountain Power customers without electricity until nearly 10:30 p.m. ***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter***īy Mark to a substation caused a power outage that hit Laramie at 1:36 p.m.
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