Tens of thousands of customers were without power in Colorado’s Vail Valley on Tuesday night after a lightning strike knocked out transmission lines, according to .
As of 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, power had been fully restored to the more than 27,000 affected customers along the Interstate 70 corridor, including in Vail, Avon, Eagle and Gypsum, according to the . The cooperative has approximately .
Holy Cross Energy first reported the outage on its website at 4:15 p.m. and said officials would work with Xcel Energy to restore power. An hour later, the cooperative said Xcel workers were patrolling the transmission line and had requested a helicopter to help with those inspections.
At 8:26 p.m., Holy Cross officials announced that a lightning strike caused the outage and that crews were hiking in to repair the transmission lines.
Power first started to come back online at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to the energy cooperative.
A new outage affecting just over a dozen customers was reported near Vail at 7:31 a.m. Wednesday. The cause of the outage was unknown, and no estimated time of restoration was available.
