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Tweet Northeast Johnson County found itself in Mother Nature’s cross hairs once again Sunday as it bore the brunt of an intense thunderstorm whose high winds felled tree branches and downed power lines — damage whose effects persisted late into Monday. Prairie Village, Fairway and Mission Hills were among the hardest hit areas in the area, [...]
Tweet Stiff breezes appear to have knocked a tree branch into a power line support beam near 67th Street and Mission Road this afternoon, felling a live wire that sparked a grass fire. A Prairie Village police officer at the scene said the blaze was quickly quelled, though dry grass allowed it to spread across [...]
Tweet The end of the final chapter in the Tomahawk Creek fence saga is likely to be written tonight as the Prairie Village City Council makes a final determination about the design of the wood-rail fence crews completed last week. The design approved by the city council in February called for chain link to be [...]
Tweet Mother Nature won’t let us catch a break. A second round of thunderstorms hit the Prairie Village area overnight, causing a fresh wave of power outages, putting additional strain on an already overbooked KCP&L repair crews. The utility company’s outage map on Saturday morning showed that nearly 2,000 customers were without power between the [...]
Tweet KCP&L’s power grid shows that as of 5:40 p.m., nearly 300 homes in the 66208 zip code and more than 450 homes in the 66205 zip code are still without power following last night’s storm. According to Prairie Village’s website, many of the outages are in small pockets, making it difficult for the utility [...]
Tweet And, we’re back. Apologies for our absence on Saturday. We weren’t playing hooky — we were one of the unlucky ones who lost power early Saturday morning and didn’t get it back until Sunday evening. The intensity of the storms that hit the Kansas City area Friday night and Saturday morning caused widespread electrical [...]
Tweet KCP&L reports that equipment issues were behind the power outage that struck Fairway Friday afternoon, tying up traffic along Shawnee Mission Parkway and forcing the city to close its pool early. According to the utility’s records, 1,800 customers lost power between 4:30-5:30 p.m. All homes had power restored within an hour of the outage, [...]
Tweet KCP&L reported this evening that approximately 150 of its customers in northern Johnson County, the majority of whom were in Prairie Village, lost power on Monday afternoon. Most of the affected had power restored within an hour. A KCP&L spokeswoman said the outage was most likely caused by an equipment failure that resulted from [...]
