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Tree on electric wires following storm (photo by Jamestown BPU – April 16, 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n

Gusty winds and hard rain caused trees and branches to bring down some power lines around the area Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The City of Jamestown<\/strong> put out a notice that there were some power outages<\/strong> in the Board of Public Utilities’<\/strong> area. They cautioned that some discolored water was reported, but that is expected to clear by today.<\/p>\n

National Grid<\/strong> had only a couple dozen residences in their area without power in Chautauqua County this morning after news reports said around 1500 lost power last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gusty winds and hard rain caused trees and branches to bring down some power lines around the area Sunday night. The City of Jamestown put out a notice that there were some power outages in the Board of Public Utilities’ area. They cautioned that some discolored water was reported, but that is expected to clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":51359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[10866,1118,1638,3651],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BPU-Tree-Line-Storm.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-dmm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43012,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/gusty-winds-bring-down-some-limbs-cause-power-outages\/","url_meta":{"origin":51358,"position":0},"title":"Gusty Winds Bring Down Some Limbs, Cause Power Outages","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"March 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Gusty winds caused some issues in the Jamestown area on Sunday. 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