NPPD crews get electricity flowing by around 7 p.m.
A broken insulator at the electrical substation on Hampton’s northeast side by the water tower is being blamed for a power outage that impacted the entire village for about eight hours on Thursday.
Hampton Utilities Supt. Chris Friesen says the power went out at about 11 a.m. Crews from NPPD went to work repairing the problem and thought they had it fixed by late afternoon, but when they turned the power back on, a resistor blew out, so they went back to work and had the lights back on by about 7 p.m.
Early Thursday afternoon women working to get Hampton’s new Loading Chute restaurant open in a couple of weeks could be seen sitting at a table underneath the restaurant’s front awning. They said they had moved outside where there was more light to see what they were doing.