Power restored to most after 1,600 lose power in Montgomery, Champaign counties

Service has been restored to nearly 1,400 AES Ohio customers in Montgomery and Champaign counties Monday morning.

As of 11:05 a.m., there were 262 total outages, with 227 in Champaign County and 24 in Montgomery County, according to the AES Ohio Outage Map. Nearly all of the outages in Champaign County are south of Urbana.

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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