Lengthy outages pour troubles for Lucknow residents | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: The heavy in a single day rain adopted by thunderous lightning strikes on late Sunday evening led to lengthy and frequent energy blackouts throughout the town on Monday.
Because the transformers struggled to endure the onslaught of lightning strikes and branches of bushes snapped overhanging wires, residents in a number of localities equivalent to Indiranagar, Mahanagar, Gomtinagar, Chinhat, Aashiana, Mohanlalganj, Munshipulia, Daliganj, South Metropolis, confronted extended energy cuts. In components of Vrindavan Yojna and South Metropolis, residents mentioned that the blackout lasted for over 12-14 hours.
“As many as 25 transformers broke down, and 13 electrical energy poles received uprooted within the Trans-Gomti space alone,” mentioned a Lesa official.
“Many energy strains had been snapped as rains uprooted the bushes and their branches fell onto the cables. In lots of locations, roads caved in or water seeped in from the potholes and destroyed our cables. Likewise, our electrical energy poles and feeders encountered glitches as a result of extreme waterlogging,” Lesa Trans-Gomti chief Anil Tiwari instructed TOI.
“At a number of locations we couldn’t resume provide due to the waterlogging,” mentioned Lesa Cis-Gomti chief engineer Sanjay Jain.