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Hundreds of OPPD customers left without power amid Friday morning storms - KETV Omaha

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Hundreds of OPPD customers left without power amid Friday morning storms

Update:

As of 10:53 a.m., OPPD crews restored power to most of the outages. Douglas County was down to 45 outages. OPPD said a tree limb on a power line near 97th & Military caused the outage in Northwest Omaha.

Previous Coverage:

The Omaha Public Power District reports more than 1,600 outages Friday morning as storms move through the metro.

As of 10:33 a.m., 1,660 customers are without power in Douglas County. The area with the highest impact is between Fort Street and Rainwood Road, 120th Street and Wenninghoff Road.

Sarpy County also reports 52 outages.

OPPD posted in its online 'Storm and Outage Center' the outage started with a circuit lockout at 9:16 a.m. The utility has dispatched two troubleshooters to work on the issue. They do not have an estimated restoration time yet.

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