UPDATED: Power restored to 1,400 homes following Wednesday outage
10:41 p.m.: Power was restored to most homes shortly after 10:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 12, according to the Yampa Valley Electric Association Outage Center. Just 19 customers were without power throughout the entire coverage area as of late Wednesday.
10:25 p.m.: Yampa Valley Electric Association crews are working on an outage affecting about 1,400 homes in Routt County, but there is no estimated time for restoration, according to a Facebook post by the association.
The post also states updates will be provided on the Yampa Valley Electric Association Facebook page when possible.
Original story: About 1,400 homes in Routt County are without power as of 8:30 p.m., according to the Yampa Valley Electric Association Outage Center.
A Facebook post from the association said the outage is affecting “west of Steamboat Springs, including Milner and areas just east of the Yampa Valley Regional Airport. Crews have been alerted and are en route.”
The 1,411 without power is about 9.13% of the customers in the 80487 coverage area.
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