ANGRY traders in the Mt Martha shopping strip were reeling on Thursday after United Energy cut the power from 8am-5pm. Most of the 41 businesses were forced to close their doors and restrict staff hours on what would normally be a busy trading day. United Energy said the outage affected 224 customers – most residential – and turned the shopping centre into a ghost town. Mr Curtis Cafe proprietor Lyndal Barnes, who met with 25 aggrieved traders on Tuesday night, said the “fact-finding session was all about where we could go from here”. “They [United Energy] have been dismissive of…