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Laura King-Homan is a contributor to the Storm & Outage Center and a communications specialist at Omaha Public Power District. She has nearly 20 years of print journalism and design experience, which lets her tell the stories of OPPD and its employees both graphically and through her writing. Laura and her husband have a teenage daughter and toddler-age son. When she’s not parenting two ends of the childhood spectrum, she’s juggling her DVR space and obsessively consuming TV and pop culture. She hopes that all of her pop culture knowledge will be useful someday, but she’s content just acing trivia quizzes for now.
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North central outage affecting 1500

All power restored; OPPD investigating outage affecting 1,500 customers near reported vehicle accident in northeast Omaha

Cass County outage impacting 1,400

Crews on their way to restore Cass County outages affecting 1,400 customers.

Vehicle accident resulting in outage to 2100

Two-vehicle accident has power poles and lines down; repairs are underway as 750 customers remain out

New outage affecting 1,300 customers

Crews resolve some circuit outages, but new outage had occurred

Western Douglas County outage affecting 900

Circuit outage in Elkhorn area affecting 900 customers.

Stay up-to-date with our outage map

Stay up-to-date with OPPD’s outage map.

Overnight storms leave scattered outages

As OPPD’s post-storm restoration work continues, outage numbers continue to drop

Infographic: Not all thunderstorms are the same

When the skies to the west darken and the temperature drops, most Midwesterners know a storm is coming. But not all thunderstorms are the same.

All storm-related outages restored

ALL storm-related outages restored by approximately 7:15 p.m.

OPPD surpasses overnight goal; outages fall to 5,600

Outage numbers continue to fall; OPPD remains committed to contacting customers still without power