Shelby Electric Cooperative customers experienced power outages thru-out Sunday afternoon into Sunday evening in central and southern Shelby County.

Based on posts on their web site and Facebook page, an Ameren transmission line that feeds some of the Shelby Electric substations was the cause of the Sunday outages.  

The first was from approximate 10:45am until 12:30pm.   The second occurred during the 3pm hour on Sunday.

At the outage’s peak, 819 Shelby Electric customers were without electricity.

The power outage also affected the Miller Media Group’s WSVZ 98-point-3 signal, after technicians repairing the station’s generator there on Sunday found mice had chewed some internal wires on the generator preventing it from coming on.  After repairs were made, the station returned to the air at about 4 o’clock during the second outage.