UPDATE
As of 7:15 a.m. Wednesday, power had been restored to all KU customers in Crittenden County; however, in the Sheridan area of the county, four Kenergy customers remain without electricity after an outage occurred at 11:15 p.m. Tuesday. Power was expected to be restored by 9 a.m. Wednesday.
ORIGINAL POST
Pockets of residence across Marion and Crittenden County are without power this evening after strong winds ripped through the area on the front end of a cold front moving east.
Maxine Croft said power has been out since about 6:30 p.m. all across the Tolu area where she lives. In fact, Kenergy Corp.'s outage map shows 748 customers affected by that outage, which covers an area from Crayne to west of Marion and northwest to the river at Carrsville and Tolu. Kenergy crews are currently on the scene assessing the situation.
In Weston, one Kenergy customer is without power and another 35 have no electricity in Dycusburg. A crew is currently at that site as well and expects to have power restored before 9 p.m.
In Marion, Kentucky Utilities Co. is currently showing only two outages affecting five customers. KU is reporting no other outages in the county and expects all electricity to be restored by 10:30 p.m.
There are also several reports of trees down across roads in the county. There are trees felled on Frances Road, Levias Road and Hebron Church Road. There are also six reported down across Reiters View Road. Just before 9 p.m., Crittenden County Road Department crews were working overtime en route to remove the trees from the roadways.
