Hunter
08/13/20
Power is slowly being restored to the listening area after Monday’s storm knocked down power lines and snapped poles throughout the area.
Mid-American Energy’s website shows 9729 customers still waiting for their electricity to be turned back on in the Iowa City area. As of 8:30am Thursday that figure had dropped to about 5000.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette compiled the following figures for other areas of the corridor:
- A third of Alliant Energy customers in Johnson County are still without power
- Nearly three-quarters of the Alliant customers in Linn County are dark
- About a quarter of the Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative in Johnson County are waiting for electricity to be turned back on
- And nearly three-quarters of the Linn County REC customers in Linn County are still without power.
Reinforcements have arrived; there are reports of utility trucks from outside the area being seen arriving to help local utilities with the painstaking task of safely returning power to frustrated residents and businesses. Officials say it could be several days before everyone is back on the power grid.
Alliant said they got about 75,000 customers lit back up Wednesday; most of them from Williamsburg, Marengo and Jefferson. That figure was updated to 100,000 on Thursday morning.
A joint statement from Alliant Energy and ITC Midwest Thursday morning said that nearly 350 miles of lines in Linn County alone were impacted by Monday’s storm.