Thursday, July 13
2:15 p.m. – Nearly all the customers who lost power during the powerful Wednesday morning storm have been restored. There are 26 customers still without power, and crews are working diligently to resolve those final outages. We thank our customers for their patience during our restoration efforts; we understand how difficult it can be without power.
Our crews have been working quickly and safely in often difficult conditions since early Wednesday morning, when a storm with wind gusts of up to 80 mph rolled through our area, causing extensive damage to trees and power lines. The storm left a peak of nearly 35,000 without power.
7 a.m. – Crews working overnight made good progress in their restoration efforts from yesterday’s storm as the number of customers without power is at 734. Additional crews, including mutual aid crews from neighboring utilities like NPPD, LES and others, are also assisting in restoring customers without power. Twenty-fours ago the number of customers without power was at 33,554 after a powerful storm system swept through the OPPD service territory.
Tree trimming crews continue helping to clear trees from lines so OPPD crews can make the necessary repairs. A reminder that it is the property owner’s responsibility to clean up and remove any debris or limbs that tree crews have to remove as they are working to get to, and clear as many lines from trees as possible for quicker and safer restoration.
We thank our customers for their patience as we work as quickly and safely as we can to restore those customers without power.
Wednesday, July 12
9:30 p.m. – Our crews have been able to continue progress in their restoration efforts as there are now 2,037 customers without power. We appreciate our customer’s patience as we work to bring all those impacted by this morning’s powerful storm online as quickly and safely as possible.
A group of troubleshooters and some tree crews will continue working through the night on restoration and in the morning additional crews, including mutual aid crews, will assist in those restoration efforts.
7 p.m. – Our crews continue to make progress this evening in restoring power to customers.
About 3,341 customers remain without power.
We appreciate our customers’ patience as we work as quickly and safely as possible on restoration.
This morning’s storm, which included winds up to 70 mph, downed trees and power lines, leaving a peak of 33,554 customers without power.
5 p.m. – Our crews to work as quickly and safely as possible to restore power to customers affected by this morning’s storms.
At this time, 5,450 customers remain without power, down from a peak of 33,554 this morning
In addition to trees, some wires were downed during the storm. Anyone who comes across a downed line should assume it is live and call 911. Never go near a downed line.
1:45 p.m. – Outage numbers have fallen to 9,918 customers without power following a powerful Wednesday morning storm that caused tree damage across the Omaha metro area. At the peak, there were 33,554 customers without power shortly after the storm, with wind gusts up to 70 mph, blew through.
There were reports of some wires downed during the storm. Anyone who comes across a downed line should assume it is live and avoid it and call 911.
Along with OPPD’s and contractor restoration crews, there are tree trimming crews out helping to clear trees from lines so OPPD crews can make the necessary repairs. A reminder that it is the property owner’s responsibility to clean up and remove any debris or limbs that tree crews have to remove as they are working to get to, and clear as many lines from trees as possible for quicker and safer restoration.
There is currently a discrepancy between what the outage map on Storm & Outage is currently showing and the number of outages. We are working on the issue and will continue to post the real-time number of outages in our updates.
12:15 p.m. – Crews continue making progress after this morning’s storm as there are now 11,386 customers without power, down from a peak of 33,554 customers shortly after the storm struck.
There are 45 OPPD crews working on outage restoration along with 10 contractors working on restoration. We appreciate our customers’ patience as we work to restore power to those impacted as quickly and as safely as possible.
There is currently a discrepancy between what the outage map on Storm & Outage is currently showing and the number of outages. We are working on the issue and will continue to post the real-time number of outages in our updates.
10:40 a.m. – Crews continue working on outage restoration and outage numbers continue to decrease and are now at 20,000 customers. We appreciate our customers’ patience as we work as quickly and safely as possible to restore power after this morning’s storm, which included winds up to 70 mph.
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There are 45 OPPD crews working on restoration and 10 contractor crews assisting in the effort. The crews are working in both the rural areas and Omaha metro area of our service territory.
We will continue to post updates here as our restoration efforts continue throughout the day.
There is currently a discrepancy between what the outage map on Storm & Outage is currently showing and the number of outages. We are working on the issue and will continue to post the real-time number of outages in our updates.
9:25 a.m. – Extra crews are working to restore power after the early morning storm system caused outages across the OPPD service territory. There are now 29,785 customers without power, down from more than 33,000 customers.
There are reports of trees in power lines and lines that were knocked down around the service territory. Anyone who comes across a downed line should assume it is live and avoid it.
There were 12 circuits that locked out during the storm. OPPD crews that customers for their patience as crews work as quickly and safely as they can to restore power today.
7:45 a.m. – A strong storm system with damaging winds blew through the OPPD service territory knocking power out to more than 33,554 customers. There are reports of downed power lines at a number of areas in the Omaha metro area as well as stop lights that are not working. The majority of the outages are in Douglas and Washington counties. Sarpy and Cass county customers are also experiencing outages.
The number of outages is expected to rise as more people wake up and find they are without power. More rain and storms are possible throughout the day Wednesday.
Crews will be assessing damage and working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible. If you come across a downed power line, assume it is live and stay as far away as possible. And commuters should be advised that with issues with stop lights and possible damage to trees from storms, the drive to work could be longer than normal.
