Service restored to most in Clark County as winter weather knocks out power in the Miami Valley

Service has been restored to hundreds of Ohio Edison customers after a wintry mix of precipitation including sleet, freezing rain, snow and rain moved through the Miami Valley Thursday night and Friday morning.

As of 11 a.m., 35 Ohio Edison customers in Clark County were without service, according to the utility company. Earlier Friday morning as many as 847 outages were reported in the county, with the majority of power outages in Moorefield and Pike townships. Ohio Edison cited severe weather as the cause of the outage in Clark County.

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Approximately 2,500 AES Ohio customers were also experiencing outages Friday morning. The utility company reported 2,444 outages as of 11:05 a.m., with more than 1,500 outages in Logan and Miami counties.

According to AES Ohio, the following local counties were experiencing outages:

Champaign County: 212 outages
Darke County: 43 outages
Greene County: 158 outages
Miami County: 537 outages
Montgomery County: 15 outages
Preble County: 21 outages

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