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250 Still Without Power Wednesday after Storm Socks IGH
Xcel Energy estimates for many in Inver Grove Heights it could be noon before electrical service returns.
At least 250 customers in Inver Grove Heights don't have electricity Wednesday morning after a powerful summer storm swept through the Twin Cities Tuesday night, according to Xcel Energy's online outage map.
Nearly 2,000 Inver Grove Heights customers were in the dark immediately after the storm Tuesday, Xcel's map showed.
At 8 a.m. Wednesday, the map showed 136 IGH customers who lost power at 8 p.m. Tuesday can expect it back by noon Wednesday. For another 110 Inver Grove homes and businesses that lost service at 2 a.m. Wednesday, the estimated time of restoration is 10:24 a.m. And there are scattered outages at individual Inver Grove addresses, most showing the noon Wednesday time for the juice to flow again.
Xcel said about 50,000 customers lost power from the storm at some point, according to Minnesota Public Radio, with about 10,000 remaining without service early Wednesday.
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