Where were you when the lights went out?

Monday night’s thunderstorms helped plunge two-thirds of the city into darkness.

Jim Snyder, general manager of North Bay Hydro, said the weather downed a 250 Kilovolt feeder line from Ontario Power Generation into the city’s main generating station.

“Two-thirds of the city was blacked-out for five minutes,” Snyder said, “and then we were able to fix the problem.”

Pockets of the city remained in darkness after the main outage, although Snyder said he hadn’t received any calls.

Worthington Street, for example, was dark from Algonquin Avenue to Ferguson Street, but light from Ferguson on.

Algonquin Avenue was dark from about Rose Avenue to Main Street, and Peninsula Road and Silver Lady Lane were also without power.

“Considering the weather things could have been a lot worse,” Snyder said.

They actually got worse for John Ross Fleming, 40, of Fifth Avenue W.

During the power failure a man was seen parking his car on Copeland Avenue and sneaking around a woman's home and looking in windows.

The North Bay Police Service was called but the man fled without his car.

Police kept a watch on it and arrested the man when he returned.

Fleming has been charged with criminal harassment and breach of probation, and remains in custody awaiting a bail hearing.