GARDEN CITY, SC (WBTW) – More than 1,600 Santee Cooper customers were impacted Monday in the Garden City area due to a breaker outage.

About 1,637 customers are without power “because of a substation breaker outage,” Santee Cooper said in a tweet around 9:45 a.m. Monday.

According to Santee Cooper’s outage map, the outage was first reported around 9:34 a.m. Monday and power is expected to be restored by 11:45 a.m.

Screenshot of Santee Cooper's outage map taken around 10:25 a.m. Monday, February 17, 2020.
Screenshot of Santee Cooper’s outage map taken around 10:25 a.m. Monday, February 17, 2020.

At last check around 10:30 a.m., power outages were down to about 400 customers.

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