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Power Officially Restored in Lakewood
FirstEnergy officials say that the company outage map on Monday — reporting that more than 1,000 were still without power — was a glitch.
Only a handful of Lakewood residents are still without power.
FirstEnergy officials confirmed that Tuesday morning.
A computer glitch was to blame for the on Monday night, said Mark Durbin, a spokesman for FirstEnergy.
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There are an estimated 25 customers still without power, but Durbin said those outages are not likely related to last week’s Superstorm Sandy.
“We completed out storm restoration (Monday),” he said. “Any outages that pop up are not from the storm — we’re trying to make sure that we scrub out those false numbers.”
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“From now on any new outages are new outages,” Durbin added. “For example, if a truck hits pole and takes out some customers or if a squirrel get in the substation. We completed our storm restoration.”
City officials said that in the event of an outage at a polling place, a paper ballot would be used.
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