Electricians work on a pole just north of Muller Lane on Thursday for what was reported as a planned outage.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Around three-dozen outages briefly affected more than 3,000 NV Energy customers on Wednesday afternoon.
According to NVenergy.com, the more widespread outages began around 3:43 p.m.
They were followed by an outage that affected 861 power company customers at 4:40 p.m. due to a failed underground cable.
The cable was isolated, and power restored at 7:26 p.m., according to spokeswoman Meghin Delaney.
An outage on Thursday morning affecting 66 customers occurred while workers made permanent repairs to the cable.
There is no indication any of the outages involved the reconstruction of Highway 395 through Gardnerville.
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Power has been restored to around 1,300 NV Energy customers but remains out to another 830, mostly in the Gardnerville Ranchos.
No cause was listed at NVenergy.com or a time when the rest of the power would be restored.
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Three-dozen separate power outages have knocked out electricity to 2,083 homes and businesses in Carson Valley.
According to NVEnergy.com, most of the outages are centered in Gardnerville with 34 separate outages affecting 1,232 customers.
The first outage occurred at 3:43 p.m. with two more in the following minutes before a larger one of 195 customers. Then there are seven single customers before another big bunch at 3:53 p.m.
No cause or estimated restoration time has been listed. The Record-Courier has reached out to NV Energy for more information.
The Valley is in the midst of a red flag warning for gusty winds and low humidity.
Minden-Tahoe Airport recorded wind gusts of 28-31 mph around when the outage occurred. Relative humidity listed on the airport’s automated weather observing system was 26-27 percent.
