WA power outage: cars queue hundreds of metres for petrol as Kalgoorlie hit by blackout - video
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Thousands of Kalgoorlie residents are still without power after the town's main transmission line was damaged by lightning on Wednesday. With businesses shut down, the queue for petrol in Kambalda — 50km from Kalgoorlie — stretched dozens of cars long. Glenn Wilson, mayor of the Kalgoorlie-Boulder council, said repair of the power lines could take up to a week.