Yesterday’s severe thunderstorms in Central Kentucky left thousands without power, potentially through Tuesday night.
Around 60,000 people in Lexington were affected by outages last night. As of 3:19 p.m., Kentucky Utilities' outage map reports 21,587 are still without power.
Daniel Lowry is a spokesperson with Kentucky Utilities. He said he expects most customers to have power restored by 11:30 Tuesday night.
“There may be a few where we have some extensive damage that we have to replace equipment or repair some of our equipment, so they could take a little bit longer,” Lowry said. “But we hope to have most everybody back up tomorrow night – hopefully sooner.”
Eighteen intersections in Lexington were also without electricity as of Monday morning, according to the city. Authorities say drivers should treat intersections without working traffic signals as four-way stops.
Lowry says they’ve been working with external crews to bring power back online, including 80 power line technicians.
“You're going to have trees that are going to bring down power lines and break utility poles,” Lowry said. “We saw more than 200 lines get taken down across the KU territory because of this storm.”
The city is also opening the Old Frankfort Pike Landfill pad 8:00 a.m. Wednesday morning through 5 p.m. Friday evening for residents to dispose of storm debris free of charge.
