More than 800 Durham residents lost their power yesterday, the Durham Police Department said a large balloon was the source of the outage. The outage was located at Hillandale/Spruce to Hillsborough Rd and from Hillsborough/Hillandale to 15-501 and beyond. The outage started around 2:50 p.m. and was restored just before 5pm. Read more at ABC11

Duke Energy has been working around the clock, however, with numbers so high a long wait is inevitable.

  People in Durham, Wake and surrounding areas are waking up this morning in the dark due to power outages caused by strong gusty winds and heavy rain. Duke Energy reported this morning that over 8,000 customers are without power. Over 2,100 customers in Durham alone are in the dark around Northgate mall, near N. […]

  About 500 people woke up to no power in southern Wake County because of a crash that happened around 2 a.m. when a car slammed into a power pole on Rock Service Station Road just north of Highway 42. The road is expected to reopen later Thursday morning. Source:  ABC11 Text “LIGHT” To 37890 for […]

  To report an outage, call Duke Energy at 800-419-6356 or text “OUT” to 57801.   Our friends at ABC 11 have shared some great tips to help with power outages and what to do….. First: Unplug all of you appliances and leave a light turned on, this prevents a possible power surge from ruining […]

  To report an outage, call Duke Energy at 800-419-6356 or text “OUT” to 57801. As predicted by meteorologist freezing rain and sleet mixed with gusty winds would be a prescription  for  power outages. As of 9:15 a.m.. Saturday, Duke Power was reporting on its website that 133,000 customers statewide were without power, including 62,000 […]

Power crews at Duke Energy are working around the clock to restore power to some 2,700 customers. Some of the Greensboro area are not only suffering from power outages but vast flooding.  Officials were forced to close some streets and the westbound lanes of I-40. There is about a 70 percent chance of storms today as […]