{"id":2322,"date":"2026-06-19T08:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:33:07","slug":"tep-repairs-nearly-40-poles-taken-down-by-powerful-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2322","title":{"rendered":"TEP repairs nearly 40 poles taken down by powerful storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section>\n<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) &#8211; Severe storms on Tucson\u2019s south side Wednesday afternoon left multiple power poles and wires in the street on Park Avenue, causing crews to close nearby roads for more than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2320\">PACC halts adoptions, limits intakes due to deadly disease outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to TEP, 39 poles were lost in just a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>TEP spokesperson J.D. Wallace said that number is notable considering the utility usually sees around 100 damaged poles during an entire season.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Padres witnessed the damage as he drove home from work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just started getting super windy; hail was falling down. The hail was super strong; it felt like my car\u2019s windows were gonna break,\u201d Padres said.<\/p>\n<p>Seconds later, he saw a power pole fall in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt fell very slowly, I guess because the lines were kind of holding it. But I didn\u2019t notice at the time; afterwards we saw that all the poles fell down on the street,\u201d Padres said.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of the nearly 10,000 customers who lost power have had service restored. Some residents are still living without power more than a day later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of those customers are close to the damage that still needs to be repaired, and that might take a little bit longer to get service back to those specific customers,\u201d Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Castro and his grandfather, Javier Castro, said they have been using fans to keep cool and had to move their refrigerated food to a family member\u2019s house to keep it from going bad.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2319\">ICE\u2019s proposed detention center in Marana may double capacity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lights weren\u2019t working and everything else; we couldn\u2019t cook anything, so we had to just get something from, you know, a fast food place and stuff,\u201d Jorge Castro said.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Castro said the extended outage was unusual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never had it out this long in all these years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have to do is first assess the damage to see what needs to be done in a safe manner, and our crews are working to do so as quickly and as safely as they can,\u201d Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace said crews are upgrading the energy grid to prevent similar damage during future storms, including replacing wooden poles with metal ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can withstand more high winds and those types of strains,\u201d Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p>Park Avenue near Ohio Street remains blocked to drivers as of Thursday afternoon. Officials ask anyone in the area to be cautious of downed power lines and report them to TEP or 911.<\/p>\n<p>Are you streaming 13 News?<\/p>\n<p>Watch a free live stream of Tucson Now and 13 News at TucsonNow.Live.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to download the free Tucson Now app, which you can find on Apple and Google.<\/p>\n<p>If you are using a desktop computer, you can use your mobile device to scan the QR code below.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2317\">One taken to hospital after fuel truck catches fire on Interstate 10 near East Vail Road<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can submit your breaking news or weather images here.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe storms on Tucson\u2019s south side left multiple power poles and wires in the street on Park Avenue, causing crews to close nearby roads for repairs for more than 24 hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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