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The five-year-old company announced Saturday morning that crews will be working through the weekend and into next week to restore power in the largest outage faced by the company yet.
High winds from Friday’s storms knocked out several spans of a transmission line between Wichita and the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station, utility provider Evergy reported Saturday.
More than 2,000 Evergy employees are working 24/7 to restore power in what an official is calling the largest number of outages for the company in at least the last five years.
As more than 2,000 Evergy employees work to restore power to thousands, the utility is keeping customers updated of its progress through text messages.