A 33 kV supply tower was affected following gusty winds at Amchinadka in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district on Saturday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Power supply went down after several electricity poles were brought down by gusty winds at Kallangala in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district on Saturday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Gusty winds that prevailed over coastal Karnataka caused power outage for several hours across the region on Saturday, even as the Mangalore Electricity Supply Company said it had a herculean task of restoring power supply when over 500 electricity poles got uprooted in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts on a single day.
Yeshwanth Kadri, a resident of Coconut Garden in Maroli, Mangaluru, said power supply that got affected at 4 p.m. in his area on Saturday was restored by 11 a.m. on Sunday. While no one responded on Mescom helpline 1912, telephone calls to jurisdictional Kulashekara branch office were not answered. When residents visited the branch office on Sunday, there was no one to attend to their complaints, he lamented.
A senior engineer from the Mescom said the gusty winds that swept the region, once at 4 p.m. and again at 6.30 p.m., brought down hundreds of electricity poles, even as several main supply lines got affected.
