Three lamp posts fell across the road at the Municipal Airstrip sometime early this morning, causing a black out in that area. Now all operations at the airstrip depend heavily on electricity, and that includes everything from the printing of flight receipts, to the cataloging of flights, to even communicating with the pilots. Fortunately the two major airlines - Tropic Air and Maya Island Air - fired up their generators and maintained services without interruption, although their online booking feature was down for a while.
BEL personnel were dispatched to the area last night and have since been working overtime to get the situation resolved. But just what caused the lampposts to topple in the first place? No one could really tell us for sure, but one of the theories was that it had to do with the natural course of erosion, compounded by recent works on a drainage system along the street side.
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