Strong winds cause trees to fall and disconnect electricity from the northern Jordan Valley areas

Arab weather - The strong winds that blew in the northern Jordan Valley after midnight last night, caused the electrical current to be disconnected from several residential areas and neighborhoods.

Citizens said that the winds caused the fall of several trees on the electricity network in several locations, concentrated in and around North Shouna and the town of Al-Mashari.

They pointed out that the power cut lasted for several hours in some scattered areas, which caused a state of confusion for the citizens, appreciating the efforts of the technical staff in the Electricity Company to make efforts amid difficult weather conditions to restore the electricity. The Director of the Northern Shouneh Electricity Distribution Department, Engineer Ahmed Al-Khamaiseh, said that the high winds loaded with sand caused the fall of many trees in different locations on the medium pressure lines, and the lighting poles, a number of which fell, adding to the slackness of other poles and touching the medium pressure lines, which led to the separation of Electricity supply to the affected areas, which were concentrated in the neighborhoods of the northern Shouna and its villages in Adasiya and Al Hamamra, in addition to one of the neighborhoods of the town of Al Mashari.

He added that five technical workshops made great efforts to restore the electricity, attributing the delay in restoring the power to some sites to the inability of the cranes in the technical workshops to work amid strong winds.

Al-Khamaiseh confirmed the completion of control and treatment of all malfunctions in the affected areas, pointing to the continuation of dealing with individual cases of subscribers on the low pressure network to restore the electricity.