{"id":21448,"date":"2025-07-15T02:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/power-outage-affects-main-street-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:06:05","slug":"power-outage-affects-main-street-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/power-outage-affects-main-street-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage affects Main Street Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=36ec5d57-5c1a-594d-b27e-34e69ee98a98&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"732\" height=\"448\" alt=\"The power outage happened right after 6 p.m., and has caused stores to close on Main Street. (Screen capture via Empire Electric outage map)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The power outage happened right after 6 p.m., and has caused stores to close on Main Street. (Screen capture via Empire Electric outage map)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A power outage affecting nearly 300 people in Cortez, Dolores and Mancos appeared to partially resolved by 8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to an outage map on Empire Electric\u2019s website, the outage took place around 6:03 p.m. and affected nearly 300 customers. The area of t, he outage reportedly includes Cortez, Dolores and Mancos, per the recording.<\/p>\n<p>By 8:15 p.m., fewer than 40 customers reportedly were without power.<\/p>\n<p>An automated phone recording on Empire Electric\u2019s outage line said there was no estimated restoration time<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalking through Safeway with a full cart of groceries in the dark, using my phone flashlight was a bit otherwordly and eerie,\u201d a post in What\u2019s Up? Dolores, Mancos, Cortez! on Facebook said. \u201cHope everyone has power soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calls to City Market and Safeway confirmed that both stores were without power and have closed until power is restored.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-9a181b92297dd5c40aa075f188827c8c\">This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>out sometime after 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,21,44,28,83,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21448","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=21448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77314,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21448\/revisions\/77314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21448"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}