About as quickly as it went off, power to about 3,400 Entegrus customers in Chatham came back on this afternoon.
According to Entegrus officials, what caused the outage in the early afternoon has yet to be determined. But about 30 minutes after the lights went out, they came back on.
The officials say about 2,000 customers initially lost power about 1 p.m. The area impacted was quite widespread, extending as far north as McNaughton Avenue, and as far south as Park Avenue. It affected customers as far west as Bloomfield Road, and went nearly to Creek Road.
About 10 minutes after the initial outage, another 1,400 customers lost their juice.
And 20 minutes later, crews had restored hydro to everyone.
