GASTONIA, N.C. — Service was restored after at least 300 people were without power in Gaston County Tuesday morning.
County officials said the outage started around 5 a.m. and affected customers in southeast Gastonia who get their power from the city's utility service.
[ [City of Gastonia outage map/reporting tool] ]
Officials said the power was not running from Duke Energy to the city like it should have been and that the problem appeared to be weather-related.
Channel 9 learned that several traffic lights were impacted in the area of New Hope Road and Franklin Boulevard.
Power was restored around 7 a.m., officials said.
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