By 7:20 p.m. Thursday, power was restored to thousands but nearly 5,500 remained in the cold and dark.
“Crews are working safely through the night on restoration efforts,” a social media post from AES Ohio stated.
UPDATE: Approx 3,800 customers remain without power from 15,366 as a storm front with wind gusts up to 40mph damaged equipment and brought down trees on power lines. Crews are working safely through the night on restoration efforts. For outage tips visit, https://t.co/DHFf9ULh9y pic.twitter.com/Xoi6MDlwAJ
— AES Ohio (@AESOhio) January 20, 2023
About 24 hours later, at 6:20 p.m. Friday, not quite 270 customers were in the dark.
A look at the outages as reported by AES Ohio, Duke Energy and Ohio Edison:
Butler County: 2
Greene County: 13
Miami County: 1
Montgomery County: 248
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