Friday night went dark for more than 11,000 households in Myrtle Beach when some Santee Cooper customers lost power for more than an hour.
Despite a release from the city shared on Facebook, which said the outage was a result of several transformers blowing out at the Santee Cooper facility on North Oak Street, the electricity provider maintains a different issue was responsible.
“No transformers ever blew,” said Santee Cooper public relations specialist Tracy Vreeland. “There was one broken insulator.”
An insulator connection on a transmission pole was corroded, likely from salt air, and broke, according to Santee Cooper…