Power went out for many Watertown residents Sunday afternoon after a thunderstorm rolled over the City. Eversource reports electricity should be restored by Sunday night.
The outage began about 4:45 p.m. in some places and shortly after 5 p.m. in other spots and most of the outages are on the Westside of town, according to the Eversource website.
UPDATE 8 p.m. Sunday: Power has been restored for all but a handful of customers. An outage affecting 423 customers was fixed before 8 p.m. and was caused due to damage by a tree limb in the area Waverley Avenue. About 5 customers off Pleasant Street remained without power at 8 p.m. Eversource reports the outage was due to equipment damage.
UPDATE 6:30 p.m. Sunday: The remaining outages may not be restored until 9:45 p.m.
UPDATE 6:30 p.m. Sunday: Eversource estimates as of 6:30 p.m. The Outage map shows power had been restored to most Watertown customers at 6 p.m.
Original Post, 5:45 p.m. Sunday: Eversource said otheroutages were expected to get power back by 8:30 p.m.
Stay tuned for updates.