Another power outage strikes
Published 5:40 pm Wednesday, October 9, 2013
For the second time in two days, Tideland Electric Membership Corp. customers suffered power outages because of problems with Dominion Power’s transmission lines.
Dominion Power supplies electricity to Tideland EMC. The Tideland EMC-related outages occurred in Beaufort, Hyde and Washington counties
Wednesday’s power outage occurred about 12:30 a.m., putting about 9,000 Tideland EMC customers in the dark. Tideland EMC was able to restore power to its Washington and Five Points substations, returning power to about 3,000 households, according to Heidi Jernigan Smith, director of economic development, marketing and corporate communications for Tideland EMC.
T.E. ALLEN/TIDELAND EMC | CONTRIBUTED
This damaged insulator caused power outages two days in a row in Beaufort, Hyde and Washington counties.
Power was restored to remaining affected customers at 4:30 a.m. today.
Dominion Power crews located a damaged transmission line insulator that caused the two consecutive power outages, Smith wrote in an email.
The outages also left Belhaven electric customers without power. The town sells electricity to its residents and others in nearby areas.
Smith said Dominion Power on Tuesday sent “an army” of workers who stayed overnight in the area. When the second outage occurred, those workers responded quickly and discovered the bad insulator, which was replaced, Smith said.
About Mike Voss
Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.
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