About 6,100 United Illuminating customers in Ansonia and Derby lost power for about an hour Tuesday (July 9).
The outage started about 2:40 p.m. and was mostly over by 3:40 p.m.
UI spokesman Edward Crowder said the problem was traced to a problem at a substation at 3 Riverside Drive in Ansonia.
“It looks like there was a glitch in the transmission system that caused that substation to shut down. We’re still trying to figure out what happened,” Crowder said.
The power failure was wide spread in Ansonia, as reported by readers of the Valley Indy Facebook page.
Ansonia’s commercial centers on Main Street, Pershing Drive and parts of Division Street were all affected.
Ansonia police Lt. Wayne Williams said there were no power-related accidents in Ansonia during the brief outage. The power remained on at Ansonia PD.
The power failure happened as a strong thunderstorm moved through the region.
Thousands of Valley residents rode out the power failure on the Valley Indy Facebook page.
Here are our favorite posts from our Valley neighbors:
MOST GRACIOUS
Tony Levinsky: “Quick work by UI.”
MOST PRESCIENT COMMENT
Steven Tootie: “It’s probably the main transformer again by American Brass. OR MAPLE St.”
MOST POLITICAL
Keith Gullberg: “Nope, still got power by the PD … maybe you didnt pay the 30% increase to your taxes?” (In response to our post “Power just went out in our building. You?”)
BEST TYPO
Kevin Harmon: “Wow! It sounds like a large part of Andonia!” (quickly corrected in subsequent post)
BEST USE OF PROFANITY: (tie)
Nicole Cruciani: “B******t!”
Jamie Lynn Vargas: “B***s damn wtf”
OUR ABSOLUTE FAVORITE COMMENT, BUT HOT DANG IT PUTS PRESSURE ON US:
Dawn Tingley Schwarz: “Emailed hubby to tell him no power. His response ‚” check valley Indy. They’ll know”. Thanks! We depend on you!!
BUMMER
Valley Indy reporter Ethan Fry realizes he left his Jeep’s windows open during the deluge.
WORST USE OF VINE
Valley Indy reporter Eugene Driscoll, who didn’t realize you should hold your phone vertical.
