Power outage hits key local shopping hub as clock ticks toward Christmas
EVANS, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – At perhaps one of the most crucial times for holiday shopping, the power has gone out at a busy Columbia County shopping center.
The power went out late in the morning on Tuesday, Christmas Eve.
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Santa’s unlikely to be affected, since Santa, he took off from the North Pole around 6 a.m. Eastern time to begin his journey around the globe, according to the NORAD Santa Tracker. He eas over Kazakhstan when the outage struck.
As of 11:12 a.m., Georgia Power showed 626 customers without electricity on a stretch of Washington Road that includes Mullins Crossing.
Traffic has been busy for the past several days at the shopping center that includes a Kohl’s, Ross, Marshalls and Ulta, among other national chains.
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