Storm causes fallen trees and power outages in Union, Union SC
Other Non-Crime EventA strong storm in Union caused trees and debris to fall. The storm brought heavy rain and wind that swayed trees, leading to temporary power outages. Utility crews responded to fix downed lines and damaged transformers while weather conditions made repairs difficult.
Audio|Source: K4USC 145.150 MHz Union Amateur Radio Repeater
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Transcript:
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Small trees and all kind of debris just and blow it off, blow it off all over the place out here.
00:08
Almost I had a pretty bad roof storm.
00:10
For the end, Danny, it just,
00:12
you could hear it coming.
00:14
Off in the distance, you could hear the thunder, and then it took a while to get here, but it poured down rain for probably close to an hour,
00:23
and the wind was swaying the trees all over the place, and that's why I told you, I ain't looking forward to looking outside, because I know I'm going to have stuff to pick up.
00:35
What I've seen out through here, you probably will.
00:39
Worst part of it went on, coming through on your side of town.
00:44
On the Monarch side over here,
00:46
it don't look like it's that bad over here.
00:47
The utility trucks go down Tony Road, and it might have been somewhere over there at the other end down back toward the Measville Road.
00:58
But that's where the utility trucks came from over here now.
01:03
It could have been somewhere else too, but it was awful funny that it was the last flickered, and then they went off for a few minutes and then...
01:11
came back on and then it went out.
01:14
So it's probably a tree or something took out some line somewhere.
01:19
It took out a transformer or something somewhere.
01:24
It works, but I'd hate to be a linesman in trying to fix that, and it raining and lightning and thunder, dealing with electricity and lightning too.
01:35
I don't think that's the kind of job I want.
01:38
Sometimes during the storm or heavy rain and lightning and all that, they, you know, they might come out, but they're not going to get up on the, I'm not going to get up and start working on that line,
01:52
probably until it probably try to calm down a little bit.
01:56
It's been several years ago now, but the tower, the first tower I ever had, I had to climb, and it was about 50 feet.
02:03
And I was out there putting an antenna on it, and I could hear a storm coming, and then the wind got up real bad.
02:10
And I said, God's telling me something I need to get my butt off this tower.
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Union, SC 29379
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