Power restored to almost all after afternoon storms cause outages

Power has been restored to almost all households in the area after a line of thunderstorms rolled through the area this afternoon, causing hundreds of outages.

At around 5:30 p.m., most of the outages were in Greene and Montgomery counties, which each had over 200 customers in the dark, according to the outage maps from AES, Duke Energy and Ohio Edison.

The AES map listed an estimated restoration time in Greene County of 7 p.m., and in Montgomery County of 1 a.m. Thursday. Power was restored to all but a few customers by 10:35 p.m.

AES spokeswoman Mary Ann Kabel said that the large outages were due to storm damage, with wind knocking down trees onto power lines.

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