Power was been cut off to Carinda again yesterday after a devastating storm tore through the town in mid-November knocking down power poles and ripping the roofs off houses.

The power went off shortly after 5:30am on Tuesday 3 December affecting around 80 customers due to a damaged powerline.

The outage ran for over 12 hours until about 6:15pm after Essential Energy's failsafe detected a fault and automatically cut power.

"A helicopter was used to patrol the power network, and crews identified a cracked insulator on the high voltage powerline as the cause of the outage," an Essential Energy spokesperson said.

"The nature of the fault made it difficult to find as insulators sit atop power poles and can be very challenging to locate.

"Once identified, crews worked as quickly as safety and conditions allowed."

A map of the blackout in Carinda. Photo: Essential Energy

Crew had also been sent on motorbikes to locate the issue.

Despite the power outage, the local service station was able to stay open.

"Most people are just sweating it out till the power returns," resident Peter Saunders said yesterday.

"Many generators have been returned to wherever they came from."

The additional downpour early this week delayed clean-up work, but didn't intensify the situation on the ground. "It hasn't really made anything worse," Mr Saunders said. 

"NSW State Emergency Service (SES) has received no calls for assistance that any of the clean up or repair works by our hardworking volunteer shave been affected by the storms in the past week," an SES spokesperson said. 

On Tuesday morning the town had around 10-15mm of rain after getting more than 50mm over the weekend, less than other towns such as Baradine were it rained over 100mm on the weekend. 

Members of the SES Western Zone have attended two incidents in Carinda since 26 November unrelated to damage caused by the storm on 17 November. 

There have been no more SES units set up in Carinda since 25 November. 

Some people have not yet been able to return to their homes and are staying temporarily in a school bus that was provided by pub owner Malcolm George. 

The local tip also remains closed in Carinda. The Walgett Shire Council is looking at next steps to reopen the tip.