Power restored to 10,000

Power has been restored to an estimated 10,000 customers in north-central and northwest Omaha who were without electricity for about an hour and fifteen minutes.

The outage began about 8:30 a.m. when a transformer failed at one of the Omaha Public Power District's substations, said Mike Jones, an OPPD spokesman. "That took out several circuits," he said.
Power was back on about 9:45 a.m., he said.

The outage affected OPPD customers in an area from about Sprague Street, which is south of Ames Avenue, to State Street, and from about 78th Street to 137th Street. Police advised motorists to treat all intersections without working traffic lights as four-way stops and to yield to the drivers on their right.

OPPD's online outage map showed that at one point, 61 percent of customers in the 68122 ZIP code were without power.
Other ZIP codes and the highest percentage of customers who were without power in those areas:
68134: 25 percent
68164: 21 percent
68142: 17 percent.

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