Early Tuesday morning, the power went out in Wamego. According to City Manager Merl Page, this was a scheduled outage for adjustments with Westar, but they did not anticipate a complete outage. He said there was a switching problem that caused damage to an insulator, causing a complete outage for about 2 hours.
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