Power out in section of Southborough this morning (UPDATED – again)

There is a power outage along sections of Boston Road and offshoots this morning, with somewhere around 400-600 affected. Apparent cause is live wire on fire.

I have very little information at this point. I’m going to post this as an open thread for people to share their information.

National Grid’s app reports this morning fluctuated from 5 people effected (and me thinking lucky us) to 19 to finally a spike to 597 around 7am. But at 7:20 showing down to 396.

Estimated restoration listed as 8:15am.

At one point, their app showed outages along Boston Road from Central Street (and along to Oak Hill Road) to Framingham Road. But from personal knowledge, the outage extends at least a little further on both ends of that Boston Road route.

Southborough News posted on Facebook last night “School St at southborough still closed down due to tree wires and transformers 8:43 Tue”. I don’t know if that is related or coincidence.

I – as most people – didn’t lose power until this morning. Shortly after, a tweet informed me of the live wire on fire on Boston Road.

Is your neighborhood affected? Post a comment to let us know.

(On a personal note – how I miss Susan already. Just a couple weeks ago for something like this I’d be checking the site. This morning my kids ran in when we lost power around 6am. I’ve been scrambling since.)

Update – 8:02am: Hallelujah! I have power!  Meanwhile my National Grid app still says 397 affected and moves estimated fix time to 9:15am.  So tell me if your power is still out.

Update – 10:05am: National Grid reports power restored from main outage. Still showing a small outage on Oak Hill Road.

(Photo: Fire on Boston Road from @AlfredoRequena)

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Chris
11 years ago

My power flickered several times around 6:20am…and the traffic lights were out at Oak Hill & Rte. 9 at 6:35am…not sure if they’re back yet.

resident
11 years ago

Maple Street and Walnut Drive also lost power.

Michael B.
11 years ago

Cherry and Pleasant Street lost power as well.

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