BULLHEAD CITY – Late afternoon weather resulted in two outages impacting Mohave Electric Cooperative members in the Bullhead City and Kingman service areas on Thursday, March 12.
An extreme storm and lightning resulted in 1,414 members losing power for nine minutes beginning at 5:57 p.m. in north Bullhead City and 2,489 members east of Kingman ranging from the Hualapai mountains through Valle Vista, Truxton, and Valentine to parts of Peach Springs.
The outage times were identical because both were the result of an open breaker at a power provider source.
Power was restored at 6:06 p.m.
“The weather that moved into the area was apparently localized at a number of locations,” said Rick Campos, chief operating officer at MEC. “Our aim is always to restore power as quickly and safely as possible. In this case it required quick communication with one of our power providers. Nobody wants to be without power when a storm hits but, unfortunately, sometimes that same storm is the cause.”
MEC recommends reporting outages 24/7 365 days a year using the MEC toll-free Outage Reporting Hotline (844) 632-2667, through a member’s SmartHub account or, for those with a cell phone listed on their account, by texting “outage” to 55050. For outage reporting to work best, your member account information must be current.
An outage map is also available to members by visiting www.mohaveelectric.com/outage-center. The map is updated as power is restored.
Members who choose to leave their homes during an outage are encouraged to call MEC at (844) 632-2667 to request a callback through the automated outage system when power is restored.
