A substantial area of the Illawarra's southern suburbs are without power.
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The Endeavour Energy website is showing outages at suburbs including Mt Warrigal, Barrack Heights, Oak Flats and Shellharbour.
The centre of the outage appears to be the Barrack Heights-Mt Warrigal area where more than 50 streets are affected.
The outage is affected hundreds of residents and it is also understood to have caused the blackout of traffic lights along Lake Entrance Road.
Live Traffic is reporting the traffic lights are out at the intersection of Lake Entrance Road and College Avenue.
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Glen Humphries
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
