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All storm-related outages restored

ALL storm-related outages restored by approximately 7:15 p.m.

Crews working 24-7 to restore power

Power restoration work continues overnight

Circuit lockout

Power fully restored in Papillion/Southwest Omaha; a bull snake caused the outage

Heat-related power outages

Most customers’ power has been restored; crews will keep working until all are back online

Circuit outage in southeast Omaha

A failed transformer is to blame for power outages in Southeast Omaha; crews hope to have power restored by 10:30 a.m.

Northwest Omaha outage

Power was restored in Northwest Omaha at 9:25 a.m.

Two circuits locked out

Power restored to all customers impacted by outages in South Omaha and Bellevue

Extreme cold brings hazards

Dangerously cold temperatures sticking around for the next few days

Mammatus clouds

Mammatus cloud characteristics: Here in the U.S., cumulonimbus are the variety of mammatus clouds we typically see. When they occur, it’s usually a sign of a particularly strong storm or maybe even a tornadic storm to come. Due to the intensely sheared environment in which mammatus form, aviators are strongly cautioned to avoid cumulonimbus with […]