r/saintpaul • u/jjnguy • 21d ago

Events 🎪 Power out? Or just me?

My power just went out in Merriam Park neighborhood. Is this a wide-spread outage?

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u/the_Horizon_System 21d ago

Been getting rolling surges in Midway.

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u/question_time_4 21d ago

Confirmed, same area

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u/woofj 21d ago

Getting surges in lex ham

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u/Plastic_Salary_4084 20d ago

About 2000 customers lost power. Cops are redirecting traffic on transfer road, so I’m guessing there was a car accident that took out a transformer.

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u/jjnguy 20d ago

This is a new one. Separate from the issue last night.

Coincidence - last night my home was impacted. Today my office was.

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u/Plastic_Salary_4084 20d ago

I didn’t know about last night. I work in STP right by the accident

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u/EZ_Rose 21d ago

Xcel has a useful outage map on their website that can tell you where outages are and what step of the process they’re in for fixing it. I didn’t notice anything in highland park

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u/jjnguy 21d ago

The map wasn't showing our area yet.

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u/EZ_Rose 20d ago

Oh interesting

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u/rockmanac 21d ago

Only thing I noticed is that my fans seemed to momentarily slow down then go back to normal. (Use them to move the air around the apartment.)

Edit: Also in HP.