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DPL: 80k customers lost power overnight
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Dayton Power & Light is still working to restore electricity to 42,000 customers who lost power during Tuesday’s ice storm. Some customers may still be without power after Friday evening, when DPL said it expects to have 95 percent of customers back online.

“We have crews working to restore power to our customers as soon as possible (around the clock), and we will be adding more crews later today that are coming in from Maryland. Crews from Tennessee and Kentucky arrived prior to the storm,” DPL said in an afternoon update.

The outages have been concentrated south of I-70, including the counties of Preble, Montgomery, Greene, Clinton and Fayette, although there have been outages in Miami and Union counties as well, DP&L officials said Wednesday morning.

“In total we have over 700 employees, contractors and mutual assistance teams focused on power restoration and we are working to add additional crews later today,” a DP&L spokesperson said.
However, officials will not provide an estimate for restoring all power because the weather continues to cause outages.

“We will be better able to make a full assessment with the light of day today,” the spokesperson said. “There has been extensive damage to the system.”

The winter storm also has hit travelers as well, with many delays and cancellations for flights arriving and leaving the Dayton International Airport.

As of 11 a.m. Wednesday, about half the flights were operating on-time and half were canceled or delayed.
Airport officials said and runways are clear and most delays and cancellations are because of the effects of the massive winter storm in other places.

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