On Tuesday evening power went out for approximately 2,400 people around the Market Common neighborhood of Myrtle Beach.
According to company spokesperson Tracy Vreeland, the cause of the power outage was due to a piece of electrical equipment, the terminator on the RPC riser, burning up.
“It’s basically just a switch, like a paddle that reaches to the switch, and it burnt up, and it had nothing to do with the weather,” Vreeland said over the phone on Wednesday morning. “It’s just a piece of equipment that’s been there a long time, and these things happen.”…