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Nearly 2,000 customers lose power in southwest Rochester on Friday

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(ABC 6 News) — ABC 6 News is tracking power outages affecting hundreds of customers across southeast Minnesota and north Iowa.

As of 6 a.m. Friday, more than 1,000 Xcel Energy customers in Freeborn County are in the dark, and restoration isn’t estimated until Friday afternoon, Xcel says. Click here for the Xcel outage map.

RPU is reporting that around 1,197 customers in northeast Rochester are affected by an outage. They estimate power will be back on around 8 a.m. Friday.

In north Iowa, nearly 800 people are without power as of 6:15 a.m. Friday morning. Click here to see the outage map from the Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives.

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Nearly 2,000 customers lost power in southeast Rochester early Friday morning, according to the Rochester Public Utilities (RPU) outage map.

As of 4:27 a.m., RPU reports five outages across the city, affecting 1,666 customers in southeast Rochester. RPU estimates the power will be back on around 5 a.m. Friday.

Click here to view the RPU outage map.

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