As Wisconsin prepares for another potential winter storm over the weekend and a High Wind Warning in effect, many are dealing with power outages Friday.
There were more than 20,000 customers reporting outages across the state at around 5 a.m., with the number reducing to close to 16,000 by 7:50 a.m.
As of just before 4 p.m., there were more than 78,000 customers without power.
Milwaukee led the list of outages with 15,659, followed by 6,347 in New Berlin, and 5,292 in Waukesha.
According to We Energies, many power outages were likely due to high wind gusts.
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"Our crews are finding significant damage form high winds and lightning - including downed power lines, downed trees and limbs that have fallen into our equipment," We Energies wrote in a post.
We Energies customers can check the power outage map by following this link here: https://www.we-energies.com/outagesummary/view/outagegrid
This is a developing story.
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