{"id":118848,"date":"2014-07-28T19:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T01:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lightning-hits-lights-out\/"},"modified":"2014-07-28T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T01:25:21","slug":"lightning-hits-lights-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lightning-hits-lights-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning hits, lights out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a seat-shaking, single crack of thunder Sunday afternoon, lightning strikes were reported all around Durango about 4 p.m., and at least 547 people were temporarily left without power in the city\u2019s Riverview area.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata Electric Association reported as of 4:25 p.m. Sunday, crews were on their way to begin working at a location on Ford Avenue, where several reports were called in.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were able to quickly identify damage, according to a LPEA news release, as a piece of equipment that protects overhead lines and equipment was damaged \u2013 possibly by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>By 5:21 p.m., most of those customers had their power restored after the short but dramatic thunderstorm passed over town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:bmathis@durangoherald.com\">bmathis@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durango had short-lived outage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13,483],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-118848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-la-plata-electric-association"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118848"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=118848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}