A thousand customers were without power Thursday afternoon, including hundreds of people in Darke and Greene counties.
As of 4:05 p.m. there were 637 outages in Darke County and 357 in Greene County, according to AES Ohio’s Outage Map.
Crews in Fairborn were working to rebuild the top of a pole and cross arm that was damaged by the weather, according to an update posted to AES Ohio’s Twitter account. In the Greenville area, crews repaired hanging wires.
3:55 PM ET storm update * Fairborn: crews rebuilding top of a pole & cross arm due to weather. Power projected to be restored soon. * Rockford: auto accident damaged a pole. Power restored at 3:52 PM. * Greenville area: hanging wires repaired. Power restored at 3:37 PM.
— AES Ohio (@AESOhio) February 3, 2022
Also this afternoon, service was restored to about 1,300 customers in the Kettering area after the company announced a scheduled outage to fix a damaged utility pole.
The outage was scheduled to take place from 1 to 3 p.m. and will affect 1,942 customers, according to the company. As of 3:20 p.m., there were 1,398 AES Ohio customers without service in Montgomery County, with the majority of them in Kettering, according to the AES Ohio Outage Map.
“It’s critical that we get it fixed,” said Mary Ann Kabel, AES Ohio director of corporate communications, early Thursday afternoon.
Icing and freezing from the winter storm damaged a cross-arm on a utility pole that is associated with two main power lines, she said.
No outages were reported in Montgomery County as of 4:05 p.m.
On Wednesday morning a substation issue resulted in more than 8,000 AES Ohio customers losing power. That afternoon, about 3,300 customers in Greene County also experienced an outage. Service was restored to most customers by 3 p.m.
