Power Outages - Maranoa Region
Maranoa residents are advised of ongoing power outages across the region due to recent electrical storm activity.
** UPDATE 3:45pm Monday 11 November **
Ergon Energy crews have been able to get power back on to nearly 400 customers since this morning.
They'll continue to push on until power is restored to all, but there's still a mountain of work to get through.
For more information about the status of outages go to Outage Finder https://www.ergon.com.au/.../outa.../outage-finder-text-view.
Ergon Energy crews are responding to fallen power lines and conducting emergency repairs to affected customers north of Roma, including Bymount and Injune.
As of 9.30am this morning, Ergon Energy stated impacted customers may be without power until tomorrow due to the severity of the damage.
Reinforcements from St George, Dalby, Chinchilla and Emerald are on route, as well as specialised tracked equipment from Toowoomba to assist replacing damaged poles and equipment.
More thunderstorm activity is predicted from later this afternoon. Residents are urged to prepare and take care.
Now is the time to register for weather warnings from the Bureau of Meteorology and become familiar with Council’s online Disaster Dashboard to receive the most up to date information regarding evolving weather warnings.
Council will provide updates throughout the day regarding the ongoing power outages as they come to hand.