Des Moines Electricity Outage

Midamerican energy reported about 77 000 iowa customers were still without power thursday afternoon with about half of those in the des moines area.

Des moines electricity outage.

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Cedar rapids city manager jeff pomeranz said the damage done by monday s storm was more impactful than the 2008 flood which was one of the nation s most expensive natural disasters at the time. At about 2 40 p m more than 126 000 people were without power in des moines according to mid american energy. What is power outage. A total of 16 005 people in the iowa city area were without power.

Some parts of des moines electric grid date back as far as the 1800s cownie said. County affected customers customers served percent out. Power outage also called a power cut a power blackout power failure or a blackout is a short term or a long term loss of the electric power to a particular area. Midamerican s electric grid backups rely.

Cownie said he has never seen a storm cause more than 100 000 outages.