Crews continue to make progress restoring power, under 9,000 still without power in metro

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) — Power companies across the area are making progress on replacing power poles and restoring power after Wednesday’s blizzard.

As of 6:30 p.m., OPPD estimates about 8,500 outages in their power outage map, including around 950 outages in Douglas County and around 3,500 in Saunders county.

In a social media post Saturday, OPPD says that more poles are on the way to replace more than 1,200 poles that were damaged in the blizzard.

OPPD reminded customers that as the outages become more localized, the numbers of outages restored may slow, but crews are still hard at work to restore power completely.

In an update around 10 p.m. Friday night, NPPD says their outages consisted mainly of individual outages to smaller groups of customers. As of 6:30 p.m., NPPD is dealing with 10 total outages.

MidAmerican Energy was dealing with 217 total outages as of 3:15p.m. Saturday, with the Council Bluffs area clear of outages.

As of 9 p.m. Friday, the Cornhusker Public Power District said they have fully restored power to customers who lost power during the blizzard.

At 10 a.m. Saturday, the City of Fremont said that power has been restored to more than 80% of the city. Some final outages may take more time as the city is still cleaning up fallen power lines.

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