Power outage ‘not caused by weather’ reported in west Columbia
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
More than 110 people in western Columbia were without power on Tuesday night.
The City of Columbia outage map showed 112 utilities customers were without power near the intersection of Rollins Road and West Boulevard. That outage was reported at 9:42 p.m.
City utilities spokesman Jason West told ABC 17 News in an email the outage was not caused by weather. It was caused by “equipment malfunction.”
Storms entered Mid-Missouri on Tuesday night. At 10:40 p.m. 28 electric cooperative members in Monroe County were without power. Ameren’s map showed 18 customers in Randolph County had no power and another four had no power on the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperative’s map.
There were 78 Macon Electric Cooperative members without power in Macon County.
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