116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
3,700 Alliant customers in Linn, Benton counties lost power overnight
It was an exceptionally dark night for some in Linn and Benton counties.
At around 12:20 a.m. power went out in a large section of the northeast side of Cedar Rapids, as well as parts of Palo and Shellsburg.
At the height of the outage, roughly 3,700 customers were in the dark.
Power was restored to most customers by 3:45 a.m.
Alliant Energy says the outage occurred after a line that feeds out of a downtown Cedar Rapids substation went out.
Alliant is still trying to figure out what caused that, but in the meantime has moved customers to an alternative line source.
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