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By the end of Sunday, Sept. 21, power was expected to be restored to another 11,000 people, according to Tom Tatham, spokesman for Dayton Power & Light.

That is on top of the 2,000 who got power Saturday night.

Tatham said 38,000 customers are still without electricity, the bulk of them in Montgomery County.

By Sunday night the company hopes to have restored power to 90 percent of the more than 300,000 customers who lost electric service as a result of the Hurricane Ike-related wind storm last Sunday.

By Sunday the company had hoped to restore power to all schools in its service area but power remained out at Orville-Wright Elementary School in Dayton, Holy Family Church School in Dayton, Valley Elementary School in Beavercreek, and Second Covenant Church School in Huber Heights.

Major outage restoration was completed in the northern counties, including Darke, Shelby, and Auglaize. In Miami County about 400 customers still lacked power. As crews finish work in the north, Tatham said they will be able to assist in the more densely populated counties like Montgomery, Greene and Warren.

Over the weekend the company added 260 linemen to the force, bringing the total number of people working on power restoration to 1,500, Tatham said. Crews are coming from out of state and the company is also using retirees to help, he said.

Efforts this weekend focused on "larger scale branch outages," meaning lines serving a significant number of people, according to the company. Those with larger outages that were expected to be part of that focus include: Brookville, Centerville, East and West Dayton, Eaton, Fairborn, Kettering, Miamisburg, Oakwood, Urbana, Vandalia, Washington Court House, Waynesville and Xenia.

According to the company it has all materials - including transformers, poles, cross-arms and wires - needed for repairs.

To report an outage call 877-4Outage (877-468-8243).

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Time-Warner estimated that it had restored 90 percent of customers have had service restored and Mike Gray, spokesman. The company has 670,000 customers in the Dayton-Springfield-Cincinnati area.

He also clarified an earlier company statement about generators the company was using.

Gray said the company did not mean to imply that the 10 percent of customers still without service were being brought back online with generators.

Gray said more than 100 generators were being used in southwest Ohio to power the company's hub sites or power supplies that do not have commercial power. That has allowed the company to restore cable, internet and other services to some people who already have power, Gray said.

Bob Beasley, spokesman for AT&T, said the company has no reported outages.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-7455 or lhulsey@DaytonDailyNews.com.