Rainy and thundering night
Electric power outages are reported in Oconee County during a night of rain and thunder. Lightning hit a tree in Walhalla and a bolt from that lightning penetrated a home on E. Mauldin Street. No one was hurt. A motor vehicle accident led to one outage early yesterday afternoon near Salem. The Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative reported more than 440 customers lost service when a pickup truck flipped a guy wire apparatus across an energized line in the vicinity of Choehee Valley and Tamassee Knob roads. State troopers reported no injuries, but a charge of driving under the influence resulted from their investigation of the 2 o’clock hour accident.