UNION GROVE, Wis. — Union Grove's Dairy Queen on Highway 11 gave away free Dilly Bars and ice cream cakes Friday morning as a power outage left residents across the area without electricity overnight.
Residents said they lost power at about 7 p.m. Thursday night. The outage affected some of the busiest areas of Union Grove into Friday morning.
A line stretched out the door at the Dairy Queen as customers took advantage of the giveaway.
"I came here at 9 a.m., because my group chat sent me something," said Jordan Hill, who walked away with an ice cream cake Friday.
Watch: Dairy Queen gives away free Dilly Bars and ice cream cakes during Union Grove power outage
Ezra Lenz, a Union Grove resident, said he "didn't have any power all night."
Lenz was at Dairy Queen with his family Friday morning and had an optimistic outlook about Thursday's storm.
"A tree fell on our pool, and I just said, 'Maybe it could be a slip n' slide," 7-year-old Lenz said.
Ethan Bartlett, a Yorkville resident, was among those picking up ice cream Friday morning — grabbing treats for his co-workers and planning to store them in a cooler.
"Most of everything out here has lost power. We lost power for a little while at my house down by the Yorkville area," Bartlett said.
South of Highway 11, David Hawkes was also without power in the Hickory Haven neighborhood.
"Broke out the camping gear, had a coffee pot in there, so just brewed some up, and then all the neighbors started coming over to get some," Hawkes said of how he spent his Friday morning without power.
Hawkes described the storms Thursday, saying, "I thought the windows were going to break. I mean, it was pretty brutal."
Power came back on for some of the busiest areas of Union Grove at about 10 a.m. Friday. Little damage was visible in the Union Grove area.
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