Credit Doug Nadvornick/SPR
Crews from the region's utilities are back at it this morning [Thursday], working to restore power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in eastern Washington and northern Idaho.
Avista says Wednesday’s windstorm caused at least 1,600 outages in its service territory, knocking out electricity to about 70,000 customers. As of this morning, the utility says more than 45,000 are still not connected.
Inland Power reports it still has 6,000 customers without power on Thursday morning, down from 20,000 during the peak of the outage on Wednesday afternoon. Still, it warns it may take several more days to get all of its customers back to normal, especially those living in remote areas.