SWITCH BLOWS; POWER OUT ON WEST SIDE

JCPenney's closed operations at West Park Mall for a brief period Monday afternoon.

NationsBank and Capaha Bank, on Mount Auburn Road, locked their doors for more than an hour.

Union Planters closed the door of its Mount Auburn Road branch for a few minutes.

A power outage, created by a burned out inline-switch, left many homes and businesses -- including a portion of West Park Mall and Cape West Business Park -- without power for more than an hour Monday afternoon.

First reports of the outage came at 1:22, said an AmerenUE representative. Everything was back on at 2:45.

The inline switch, said the representative, was just west of the Ruby Tuesday Restaurant, and tied two circuits together."

St. Francis Medical Center was not affected by the outage.