A pre-dawn power outage snapped thousands of residents awake in southern Salt Lake County on Wednesday, cutting electricity to more than 28,000 people and turning large swaths of Sandy and Draper into cold, dark pockets just as the morning rush began. With traffic signals out and streetlights blacked out across multiple neighborhoods, drivers were left treating major intersections like four-way stops while a winter storm closed in.
According to KUTV, Rocky Mountain Power first received reports of the outage around 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 18. The utility said roughly 28,075 customers in the Sandy and Draper area were hit. Crews were dispatched to investigate, and the company initially projected that power would be fully restored by 12:30 p.m., while cautioning that the…..