(Atlantic, Iowa) – Much of the City of Atlantic was without power for about an hour this (Monday) afternoon. The lights went out at around 4-p.m. and came back on right around 5-p.m.  Atlantic Municipal Utilities General Manager Steve Tjepkes initially said the problem was with a feeder line, but he said right after the power came on, that a contractor working on a substation ran into an issue which resulted in the widespread outage.

Street lights were out across town, causing the Police and Street Departments to roll-out temporary 4-way stop signs. There were reports earlier in the afternoon, of a separate power outage in Council Bluffs that left 5,500 people in the dark.