Brief power outage affects some west campus buildings, bookstore and library

Moss Brennan, Reporter
February 3, 2020

A brief power outage affected buildings on West Campus, including the LLC residence hall, the University Bookstore and Belk Library.

Power has been restored to all buildings.

The power outage was from a bad transformer which tripped a breaker in a substation.

The brief power outage caused several internet switches to reboot which caused a brief internet outage. Some of he buildings that were affected include CAP, Convocation Center, JET, Katherine Harper Hall, Alumni, NRLP, Quinn, Wey, and stadium according to an email from IT service.

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Moss Brennan, Reporter

Moss Brennan (he/him) is a senior journalism major with a minor in political science and media studies. He has worked on The Appalachian since freshman...