The Herald, Sharon, PA Published Wednesday, July 9, 2003

Storms keep zapping power

By Michael Roknick
Herald Business Editor

Another day, another storm, another batch of power outages.

The latest rainstorm rumbled through the area at dawn Tuesday with dish-rattling thunder and pitchfork lightning, leaving 5,800 Pennsylvania Power Co. customers in Greenville, Sharpsville and Hermitage without power.

Lightning hit a Sharpsville substation, which caused the Shenango Valley outage and required extensive work. A tree limb came down at about 6:30 in Greenville, damaging a main power line that feeds the heart of the town, said Randy Coleman, area manager for Penn Power. By noon Tuesday, power was restored for nearly all those customers.



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