Bird strike led to Tuesday's power outage

Some residents on the south and east parts of Sidney experienced short power outages yesterday morning.

"We just had a bird get up in the lines and took out a substation," said Sidney electric superintendent Mike Palmer.

The outages took place at around 9:45 a.m. and most were restored by 10:15 or 10:30, he said. The incident was unrelated to the city's work to move downtown power lines and meters underground.

Instead, city officials point out, random incidents such as yesterday's outage are one of the reasons the Sidney decided to bury the power lines.

"They're less apt to have weather and cr...