{"id":155314,"date":"2018-10-10T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=155314"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:43:19","slug":"heavy-wet-snow-contributes-to-power-outages-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=155314","title":{"rendered":"Heavy snow &#038; tree limbs contribute to power outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-77865\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ottertailpoweroutage-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ottertailpoweroutage-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ottertailpoweroutage-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ottertailpoweroutage.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Tree limbs heavy with wet snow coming in contact with power lines have been causing power outages in Jamestown all day Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Otter Tail Power Company, Jamestown Operations Manager, Charles Krebs says, Wednesday morning between 11:15 and 11:27, one such incident caused an outage from the post office area, to just west of Jamestown and north.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, another tree limb in the 200 block of 6<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, Southeast, contacting a power line caused a separate outage in Southeast Jamestown starting at 2:45-p.m., from the area around the middle school, and south to 10<sup>th<\/sup> Street Southeast.\u00a0 The power was restored at 3:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>He says when the tree limb contacts the power line a fault occurs which trips a circuit breaker which needs to be reset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Tree limbs heavy with wet snow coming in contact with power lines have been causing power outages in Jamestown all day Wednesday. Otter Tail Power Company, Jamestown Operations Manager, Charles Krebs says, Wednesday morning between 11:15 and 11:27, one such incident caused an outage from the post office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155314"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155463,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155314\/revisions\/155463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}