Just before 3 this afternoon there was a brief power outage north of Paonia to the end of the system in Gunnison County including Somerset, Electric Mountain area, and the coal mines in the North Fork Valley. The outage lasted for 38 minutes due to a 115,000 volt line that tripped.  The line was quickly [...]

Portions of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests and local areas across the Forest have experienced sudden, violent and turbulent thunder and lightning storms, with more forecast throughout the week. On Tuesday, heavy storms with significant rainfall caused road closures and failures.  The Goodnough Road (Forest Service Road 618), located off highway 145 [...]