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Utility crews are working overtime in eastern Washington and northern Idaho, picking up the pieces from Wednesday’s windstorm.
High winds knocked down trees and power lines from the Canadian border down to the Palouse.
In north Idaho, Erika Neff from Kootenai Electric Cooperative says, in the early evening, crews were trying to bring back power for more than 15,000 customers from nearly 50 outages.
“We have 11 crews working right now and we’re calling in more contact crews. As they assess damage, we are asking our members to be prepared for outages that last throughout the night and possibly to multiple days, she said. It’s really widespread throughout our system and we serve up from about Athol all the way down to the Worley area. So, throughout Kootenai County we’re seeing outages, she said.
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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.