A delivery truck caused a two-hour power outage to about a quarter of Pipestone Thursday morning at about 8 a.m.
The U.S. Foodservice truck, driven by Ryan Beck, was leaving the Subway parking lot after a delivery when its trailer snagged an overhead power line.
Beck said he was pulling out of the lot when he realized he was caught in the line.
“Luckily I stopped,” he said. “I heard the pole start popping.”
The pole did not immediately snap, but was leaning. The driver and Marty Wallin, owner of the Pipestone Subway, called Xcel Energy and a crew arrived shortly to assess the situation.
Beck, Wallin and the Xcel Energy employees were standing in the parking lot when the pole collapsed taking a second pole to the south with it. One of the poles struck Wallin’s truck, breaking the passenger side window.
“We were all standing out there and the pole was just bent a little bit, then all of a sudden it just came crashing down,” Wallin said.
“We were just running to get the hell out of the way,” Beck said.
No one was injured by the fallen poles or power lines and power was back up everywhere but Subway by 10 a.m.
Wallin was busy working on a 25-sandwich order as he relayed the morning’s events.
“It’s probably the only work we’ll be doing today,” he said.
