What Parkville resident Beth Schmidt expected to be a typical storm-related outage on a muggy evening instead ended with popping sounds, lost power, and fire in her backyard.
The Parkville resident was left with burned property, and her neighbors were left wondering whether their utility company was taking repeated electrical issues in the area seriously.
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According to the Baltimore Banner, Sept. 3 brought more than an outage to Parkville’s Cromwood Coventry neighborhood: locals described popping noises, vibrating power lines, power loss, and damaged electronics.
When neighbors met on Sept. 22, more than 30 residents described problems they believed stemmed from the outage and surge, including blown light bulbs, fried surge protectors, tripped breakers, and damage to appliances and HVAC systems…