(Update)  A substation malfunction in St. Joseph is blamed for a power outage that initially turned off the lights for more than 17,000 homes and businesses.

According to the outage map from KCP&L that number was more than 10,000 customers without electricity in St. Joseph and areas east of town by 10:45 a.m.

Those numbers went back up again by about 10:55 a.m

The largest area affected included 9,835 customers without power in an area generally south of Frederick, north of U.S. Highway 36, east of 10th Street and west of the Belt.  An area north of Frederick included more than 2,500 outages.  Another area east of I-29 included 1,563 outages.  A large rural area east of the city included outages that totaled 1,208 customers.

St. Joseph Police Sergeant James Langston says City Yards crews are trying to get stop signs erected at some of the city’s busier intersections which lost their traffic signals in the outage. Langston urges motorists to treat intersections without traffic lights as four-way stops and to be courteous.

He says KCP&L told police a substation in the 800 block of Woodbine malfunctioned, causing the outages.  The utility is busy working to correct the malfunction.

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More than 15,000 people were without power in St. Joseph Sunday morning.

According to Kansas City Power & Light’s outage map around 10 a.m. 15,353 people were without power.

According to the map people impacted by the outage spread from S. 9th St. in downtown St. Joseph to Riverside Rd and from Gene Field Road to Highway 36.

Many stop lights are out around town.

Country Club Village was also impacted by an outage.

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