By Kalin Krohe, Panhandle Post
A powerful winter storm caused power outages in the City of Alliance on March 14.
On Sunday the City of Alliance said in a news release there was a "city-wide powerage", but Alliance Electric Superintendent Kirby Bridge said there was not.
"We had two breakers open up," Bridge said. "One at the Cody Substation and one at the Emerson Substation. It was a pretty good size outage, but it wasn't a system wide outage."
Bridge said many City of Alliance electric crews put in over 12 hours working on the outages.
"More like probably about 14 hours was the most anyone put in yesterday," Bridge said. "Then we were back out this morning at 3:30 a.m. We had three crews out."
Bridge said he's seen storms like this in the past in Alliance.
"We've had storms this bad...or probably even worse," Bridge added.