Blackouts over…but not for W. Highway residents

While the rest of the country is once again receiving reliable electricity service, the unfortunate residents of the Western Highway between miles eight and twenty-five continue to suffer. Today B.E.L.’s public relations department confirmed the outages to News 5 saying that the cause of the weekend blackouts was a broken insulator at mile thirteen. What caused the insulator to malfunction has not yet been ascertained, but B.E.L. technicians had to comb the entire seventeen-mile stretch to locate the problem and carry out the repairs. But just as that problem was corrected, the same area was again plunged into darkness. According to B.E.L., a delivery truck entering a warehouse compound at mile twelve and a half this morning became entangled in some low hanging wires. The resulting short tripped the low voltage lines, but quick work by B.E.L. linesmen was able to restore current to consumers as of three o’clock this afternoon. Frustrated residents are assured by B.E.L. that they are not being singled out for punishment. As for the rest of the nation, it is believed that the onset of rains in the south and west will enable the Mollejon Hydro Plant to produce more power and give B.E.L. increased flexibility to manage the national grid.