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More than 200 RPU customers without power in southwest Rochester; crew working to restore

KTTC · last updated

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – According to Rochester Public Utilities (RPU), more than 200 customers are without power in southwest Rochester.

RPU says the outage began around 2:23 p.m. on Sunday and more than 1,200 customers were initially affected. However, that number is down to 238 as of 4:50 p.m., and at least one crew is working to restore power to those remaining customers.

It is unclear at this time when those customers will have power restored, though RPU initially believed all power would have been restored by 4:23 p.m.

More information about this outage can be found here.

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