On Friday, by 1:21 pm., there were 6,344 outages — including nearly 4,000 in Fayette and Shelby counties combined. By 3:36 p.m., that number was cut down to 3,158, with the most outages in Fayette and Miami counties, but by 5:51 p.m. outage numbers ballooned to 7,636, in large part in Miami County, which reportedly had over 5,831 power customers without electricity. As of 9:51 p.m., that number had fallen again to 866 power customers.
By 10 a.m. Sunday, that number was down to 276 power customers with the largest portions of that in Clinton County southeast of Wilmington, with 144 power customers without electricity there, and in Montgomery County with 109 power customers without electricity there, most of that in the Vandalia area.
“With our storm plan activated, crews are restoring power to customers quickly and safely,” AES posted on Twitter Friday morning. “Strong winds and frigid temperatures will continue through the day and crews will work round the clock.”
A look at the outages as of 10:25 a.m. today:
Champaign County, 4
Darke County, 16
Greene County, 1
Miami County, 0
Montgomery County, 109
Preble County, 0
Warren County, 0
Butler County, 2
Warren County, 19
Clark County, fewer than 5