More than 4,300 electricity customers, including several Clayton County schools, were temporarily without power in the Jonesboro area Monday morning, officials said.

Power was restored to all customers affected in that area within an hour of the outage, Georgia Power officials said.

Clayton County Schools spokeswoman Vicki Gavalas said three schools and the district’s central offices were affected when power went out around 10:30 a.m.

During the outage, the facilities used backup generators to continue operations.

Georgia Power officials report more than 4,330 customers were affected by an unidentified problem at a substation, according to Channel 2 Action News.

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