Thousands of Twin Cities area residents woke up Wednesday morning without power after thunderstorms and heavy rain rolled through the area overnight.
More than 10,000 customers across Minnesota had lost service at one time, but by 1 p.m. that number had dropped to under 2,500, Xcel Energy said.
The east metro still had 1,725 customers offline at 1 p.m., while numbers across the west metro had dropped to just over 700. In Hennepin County, 645 customers remained in the dark, while 1,596 were offline in Ramsey, the utility reported.
Remaining large outages included 894 in St. Paul, 474 in Maplewood, 301 in Minneapolis, and 126 in Mounds View.
At one point, more than 2,300 customers in Minnetonka were without service. By 1 p.m., 54 customers in the west metro city were waiting for service to be restored.
About 74 customers were without power in Dakota County, 85 in Anoka County and 30 in Washington County, according to Poweroutage.us.
“Please continue to check back for additional updates regarding the restoration progress,” Xcel Energy posted on its website.
