Northwest Iowa — While the blizzard was spotty in our area , utility crews continue working to restore power across the state following Wednesday’s blizzard. MidAmerican Energy company spokesman Geoff Greenwood says this was one of the bigger storms to impact the system.
There were more than 60 thousand total customers who lost power in the storm. Western and northwest Iowa saw the most damage and Greenwood says the Interstate 29 corridor between Sergeant Bluff and Missouri Valley got clobbered.
The interstate was shut down for several hours after power lines fell onto the roadway. Greenwood says the changing precipitation as the storm blew through caused problems when combined with the wind.
Greenwood says they sent line and tree crews out to clear trees and replace the poles.
Greenwood says they staged in the area before the storm and also called in help from other states. The storm made it difficult to quickly get to work in some areas.
He says they have some 600 people working in western Iowa to restore the power there. MidAmerican was showing some 29 hundred customers still without power at noon Thursday, with more than a thousand in Council Bluffs and almost 14 hundred in the Sioux City area.
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