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DENTON – A half-hour power outage Thursday morning, Feb. 20, was caused by a tree branch falling across a transmission line, according to a spokesperson from Choptank Electric Cooperative in Denton.
The outage began about 8:25 a.m., with power restored to most customers by 9 a.m. A total of 1,371 customers from Denton to Harmony, were affected. Temperatures were in the low 20s with mostly sunny skies.
According to Choptank Electric Cooperative’s outage map, power was restored to all but 49 customers by 9:18 a.m.
