HIGH POINT, N.C. — Nearly 2,000 households and businesses were without power in High Point Monday morning. However, power has since been restored to the area.
The outage area covered the populated neighborhoods along Skeet Club Road and Sandy Ridge Road. Southwest elementary, middle and high schools were on remote learning due to the outage the district said.
Duke Energy reported a car damaged its equipment just before 2 a.m. The energy company initially said power was expected to be restored by 8 a.m. that time was extended to 4 p.m.