Brief Downpour Causes Power Outage in Shorewood Friday Afternoon
Storm brings outages around Milwaukee area.
Updated 9 p.m.: A brief downpour caused some issues in Shorewood Friday afternoon, knocking out power for some 1,600 homes. Power was restored to most homes a little after 4 p.m., after more than an hour of downtime. Roughly 100 homes remained without power. Shortly thereafter, power was restored to all Shorewood homes. The cause of the outage for the majority of homes occurred when tree branches surrounding two wires in the 4200 block of North Murray Avenue forced wires to touch each other, according to We Energies. And earlier report of a blown transformer proved false. Original story: About 1,600 customers in Shorewood are without power after thunderstorms rolled through Friday afternoon. According to the We Energies outage map, the …
