Holy Cross College had to evacuate students from their residence halls as plummeting temperatures and a power outage impacted the general area around the campus.

The outage began around 6:15 a.m. A voluntary evacuation was called around 8:30 a.m. About an hour after that, the evacuation was made mandatory.

Power was restored around 11 a.m. and students were transported back to campus from the North Dining Hall of Notre Dame, where they were sent to stay warm.

The cause of the outage was a problem on a distribution line that I & M Power says affected about 1,500 customers the area.