Storm Uproots Electric Pole in Cholapur’s Jagdishpur; Local Supply Cut

Jagdishpur village under Cholapur lost its local supply when a storm tore an electric pole out of the ground near Mahendra Giri’s house and snapped the wires that fed the neighbourhood.

Residents said the wind was strong enough to lift the pole from its base rather than merely crack the top. The fall came when no one was standing nearby, so the village escaped injury even though concrete and conductor hit the ground hard. The outage that followed was immediate — lights, fans and pumps in the pocket went dark together.

Villagers informed the power department and asked for a new pole, not a temporary jury-rig. In rural Cholapur a single LT pole often carries the span that serves a cluster of houses; when it goes, waiting for a patch joint rarely restores the full load. Heat and humidity after the rain made the cut feel longer than the clock, neighbours said, though no official restore time had been pinned to the complaint when this brief was filed.

Women who cook on electric stoves shifted to stored gas where they had it. Students with Saturday’s school holiday still needed charged phones and lamps if coaching notes were due. Those small domestic frictions are how a single pole collapse shows up in a village ledger even when no one is hurt.

The Jagdishpur collapse is a point incident inside a wider Friday–Saturday storm belt. Mirzamurad and Rohania reported scattered tree and line damage the same evening; this story stays with the named pole, the named house and the neighbourhood cut. Mixing feeder maps from other sub-divisions would only blur the local fact.

Children and cattle should be kept off the fallen span until the department’s crew bags the conductor and declares the site safe. Live wire on wet soil is a classic monsoon hazard, and curiosity around a dramatic fall is how villages lose a second evening to tragedy. Once the new pole is set and the jumpers remade, supply can return on the same alignment; until then, neighbours are sharing inverter points and waiting on the complaint ticket.

This desk is not assigning blame for foundation depth or prior leaning. The record for now is simple: storm, uprooted pole near Mahendra Giri’s house in Jagdishpur, Cholapur; wires down; area outage; no casualty; residents seeking a replacement pole from the power department. A separate brief covers the wider Mirzamurad–Rohania fault night so readers can keep the two maps apart. Neighbours who share a courtyard inverter have been asked to keep the load light until the department reconnects the span.