A power surge on St. Thomas Saturday afternoon knocked out some of the Water and Power Authority feeders, leaving swaths of the island in the dark as the day ended, but WAPA expected to have the system back up and running shortly, according to Jerain Fleming, the utility’s public information officer.
The feeders are being repaired one by one, Fleming said, bringing the power back carefully so that whatever tripped the surge in the first place doesn’t recur.
At the same time, the authority is investigating, what went wrong, she added, in the hopes of preventing a repeat.