Power outage puts life in parts of Usedom to a standstill
Early in the morning, a large-scale power outage occurred in the Kaiserbaden area on Usedom island. Many coffee machines remained cold. Those who drove cars looked at dark traffic lights. Some could not get their cars out of the underground garage. It took twelve hours for the power supply to be restored.
A large-scale power outage caused problems in the Kaiserbaden area on the island of Usedom for approximately twelve hours - in apartments, hotels, and supermarkets. According to energy supplier Edis, an underground cable fault occurred in the Bansin area in the early morning. As a result, the power supply in the region around the Kaiserbaden, Ahlbeck, and Heringsdorf was disconnected. It was restored twelve hours later.
"It was an exceptional situation," said Heringsdorf Mayor Laura Isabelle Marisken in the evening. Thousands of households were affected. "You couldn't gas up, the traffic lights didn't work, and in some hotels, the garage doors wouldn't open anymore," Marisken explained. Perishable food from supermarkets had to be discarded.
Cash registers paralyzed, check-outs impossible
For people who needed electricity for medical reasons, a emergency center had been set up at the fire department. Some people had visited. There was a backup power supply there.
The power outage in the middle of the tourist season on the popular Baltic Sea island caused disruptions in hotels as well. Lisa Wehrmann, junior hotel manager of the Ostseeblick Hotel in Heringsdorf, reported to the "Nordkurier": It was impossible to make coffee, bake rolls, or do room cleaning, meals, or check-ins. "Currently, no check-outs are possible because the cash registers and hotel systems were paralyzed by the power outage. It's dramatic what's left for us, except for spreading good cheer," Wehrmann told the newspaper.
Despite the power outage resolution in Poland's neighboring country, Germany, the Kaiserbaden area on Usedom island experienced similar issues. The power grid disruption also affected Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, causing issues in several establishments.
To prevent food waste, local authorities considered international cooperation with power grid experts to prevent such incidents in the future.
