Did Southern Utah Experience Weird Power Blips?

Nothing gets the blood pumping like a good old fashioned power outage.

There you are hanging out on the couch watching the TV, playing the stereo in the background because you like to party, and then, WHAMMO, the power goes out.

The TV clicks off, the music stops and the whistles and hums of your house shut down leaving you in darkness and silence.

Sometimes all we can do is sit for a moment as our life full of sound and color just washes away in the blink of an eye, and think: “Did that just happen?”

After those moments of self reflection, we do what any reasonable person would do when faced with a lack of access to their standard lifestyle: ask who else just experienced that?

I mean the likelihood of it just being our small humble abode that lost electricity has to be pretty slim right?

So, let’s treat it like the aftermath of a small earthquake, taking to social media, calling loved ones and asking our neighbors all the same thing, “did your power go out?”

One moment such as this one supposedly happened for many yesterday right around that 6:00 PM time frame when multiple areas in Southern Utah seemed to hit a small electrical irregularity.

As I can only speak for myself, I was hanging out at the Lin’s grocery store over on Mall Drive right around the aforementioned time frame when the store went dark.

I was reaching my grubby hand into a box of Kit Kat’s, ya know the Big Kat version where it’s basically one thick piece of inflated Kit Kat, when the lights went out.

I still secured the target, and made my way to the self checkout register.

On my journey, I was wondering how people were reacting to a darkened grocery store, and I’ll be honest, it was no different than if the store was operating under normal circumstances.

Shoppers couldn’t care less about the sudden lack of light.

Once I got home, my wife told me all about how the power went out for ten minutes, meaning this likely wasn't just an odd coincidence.

Being the super sleuth that I am, I took to the internet to find out how widespread this incredibly minor event was.

The St. George Reddit page, AKA r/stgeorge had the answers I sought.

Living among post about the spaceX launch and scorpions was one titled “Anybody else experience a power blip?”

The thread started by user “Stranded-In-435”, had 35 upvotes and 21 comments as of today, which isn’t too shabby.

Many redditor’s acknowledged that they too had had their power go out in different parts of Washington county in that same time frame.

The original poster had only experienced blips, small deviations if you will.

Basically a glorified flicker or two.

Other’s such as “laknarokee” had their power go down for a handful of minutes.

They noted themselves that the small outage was “all over southern Utah and bordering Arizona.”

“Tasty-Fondant4191” said the power went down where they were in Hurricane “for a good 10 minutes.”

Apparently the Lin’s on Mall drive wasn’t the only business affected either as user “BlueHazmats” noted that the Maverik gas stations on Dixie Downs and Snow Canyon “couldn’t pump gas after it happened.”

“GilbertLechat” saw the lights flash in the new Panera Bread and “Kirii22” claims the “mall went partially dark.”

It even went as far as Littlefield, Arizona per user “Inevitable_Professor”.

Whether it was quick light flickers or full blown loss of power seems to differ based on location but there were far too many shared stories to write it off as a trick off the mind.

Now what did this sleuthing amount too? Absolutely nothing.

Was there a point? No, not at all.

Did I just write about an event that people stopped caring about literally minutes after the power came back on? Yes, yes I did.

Through unofficial sources in the form of complete strangers on the internet, who as far as I know have no credibility, I was able to assume that a large chunk of Washington County had some abnormal happenings yesterday with their power.

“Assume” is the key word as all of this is about as unofficial as it gets.

Even if the whole Reddit thread is built upon the fabric of lies, at the bare minimum, I was able to satisfy that unexplained human urge to see if everyone else saw, felt, and experienced what I just did in that grocery store.