The utility company reported 1,672 total outages earlier Monday, with more than 800 in the Washington Twp. area in Montgomery County and nearly 800 in Champaign County.
The Urbana-area outage was reported around 8:57 a.m. and the expected restoration time is around 11 a.m.
Heavy showers early Monday morning in Dayton set a new record for rainfall. As of 4:44 a.m., Dayton reported 1.83 inches of rain, breaking the record of 1.49 inches set in 1995, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
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