About 30 short-term power outages were recorded by specialists of Oblkommunenergo for the May holidays. Most of them occurred in the first two days. Strong winds broke the trees and provoked short circuits on the lines due to the wire splice.
More time was needed by the power engineers to restore the supply of the resource in Polevskoye - there without electricity there were just two settlements - Zyuzelsky and Kosoy Brod. To resume electricity supply for about a thousand consumers and several social facilities - boilers, schools and kindergartens - managed only in a few hours. The most massive shutdown occurred in Butka village of Talitsky GO. There, a tree fell on the air line, about 3,000 inhabitants touched off, about two hours the buildings of the administration of the settlement, the children's art school, the kindergarten, the post office were de-energized.