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Power restored after major outage following storms

Posted at 2:28 PM, Aug 17, 2018
and last updated 2018-08-17 16:28:24-04

UPDATE:

Power has been restored after thousands were in the dark following Friday's storms. 

We Energies said a tree fell and knocked down a power line near 2nd and Concordia. The outage lasted 70 minutes. 

ORIGINAL STORY:

Thousands of people are without power after storms rolled through the area on Friday. 

According to the We Energies Outage Map, more than 3,400 people are without power as of 2:20 p.m.

Much of the outages are near I-43 near Capitol Drive. 

Earlier in the day floods shut down parts of I-43 near Good Hope Road. 

We Energies can't confirm what the issue is, but it's possible the outage was caused by downed trees. 

Check the We Energies Outage Map here.