{"id":62558,"date":"2019-03-17T00:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=62558"},"modified":"2019-03-17T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T18:52:12","slug":"storm-lashes-8-districts-power-supply-disrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/03\/17\/storm-lashes-8-districts-power-supply-disrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm lashes 8 districts, power supply disrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Mar 16:<\/strong> A cyclonic storm has swept across eight districts in the state leaving a trail of devastation.<br \/>\nThe storm in Tirbin area on Friday evening caused heavy damage to a 132 kv power transmission line tower (no 166) near Bam check gate in Leparada district, disrupting power supply to eight districts.<br \/>\nThe affected districts are Leparada, Lower Siang, West Siang, Siang, East Siang, Lower Dibang Valley, Lohit and Namsai, informed Superintending Engineer (E) TK Tara.<br \/>\nThe extent of damage is so high that it will take at least a week&#8217;s time to restore power supply through the transmission line from Hoj power house of Ranganadi Hydro Electric Project, the release said.<br \/>\nThe EE, however, said that power supply to those affected districts is likely to be restored on or before 23 March.<br \/>\nHe appealed to the consumers to bear with the inconvenience.<br \/>\nA cyclonic storm on Saturday afternoon left a trail of devastation in several villages of Mebo circle of East Siang district, damaging houses, standing crops, electrical poles and granaries.<br \/>\nReportedly, the storm has badly affected Aohali village, besides some adjoining parts.<br \/>\nThe storm not only destroyed standing crops but also uprooted trees and bamboos, resulting in a blockaded of road for a couple of hours.<br \/>\nRoofs of many houses were blown away, while uprooted trees damaged houses of several others.<br \/>\nWith many electrical poles and transmission lines damaged, staffers from the electrical department are working on war footing to restore them.<br \/>\nCircle Officer Kabang Apum rushed to the spot and took stock of the situation on the same day. There are no reports of casualties, the CO informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Mar 16: A cyclonic storm has swept across eight districts in the state leaving a trail of devastation. The storm in Tirbin area on Friday evening caused heavy damage to a 132 kv power transmission line tower (no 166) near Bam check gate in Leparada district, disrupting power supply to eight districts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}