UPDATE: Power being restored to customers across southeast Minnesota - KTTC
UPDATE: Power being restored to customers across southeast Minnesota
SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA (KTTC) – Power is being restored to customers across Southeast Minnesota after storms rolled through the area Tuesday evening.
According to Rochester Public Utilities, as of 9:23 p.m. Tuesday night, 6,300 customers are still without power.
The largest areas outside of Rochester still seeing power outages are MiEngery Cooperative in Winona County. MiEnergy is reporting 1,000 power outages between southeast Minnesota and Iowa.
As of this update, 1 customer in Oronoco is without power, which is down from the nearly 2,000 that experienced power outages, according to the People’s Energy Cooperative Outage Map. Cascade Township is down to just 113 customers without power, a large decrease there as well. Plainview was the other community seeing large outages, 156 people are still without power there.
Xcel Energy has reporting 1 customer without power near Altura after more than 1,000 were without power in Winona County.
Zumbrota has had all customers’ power restored while Goodhue only has one customer without.
Albert Lea saw nearly 3,000 people without power earlier Tuesday evening. Now, 278 are without power.
SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA (KTTC) – According to Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative, there are multiple reports of power outages across the southeastern region of Minnesota.
More than 3,000 customers are affected near Albert Lea. Roughly 400 people in Austin are also experiencing power outages.
According to Goodhue County Co-op Electric, roughly 50 customers in Zumbrota, over 70 customers in Goodhue, and nearly 50 in Chester are all without Power.
KTTC is also receiving reports from viewers of power outages in northwest Rochester.
RPU confirmed that there are outages in all outages in all quadrants of town and that all crew are responding.
KTTC will continue to update as our storm coverage continues.
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