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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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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

Wednesday outage totals continue to fall, complex work continues

Outage numbers falling, OPPD is on track to meet restoration goals

Outages will approach 92% restoration by 11:59 tonight; OPPD suspending disconnects for non payment until July 26

Outages continue to drop; OPPD suspending disconnects for non payment until July 26

Steady work continues; customers urged to not approach crews in the field

Outages drop to 28,000; restoration effort will continue overnight

Restoration doesn’t let up for OPPD crews, mutual aid

OPPD estimates 85% of customers may be restored by midnight Sunday; more information to come Monday

Crews working 24-7 to restore power

Power restoration work continues overnight