Des Moines Electricity Outage

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Des moines electricity outage.

What is power outage. A total of 16 005 people in the iowa city area were without power. Midamerican energy reported about 77 000 iowa customers were still without power thursday afternoon with about half of those in the des moines area. Poweroutage us is an ongoing project created to track record and aggregate power outages across the united states.

County city zip code message. County affected customers customers served percent out. At about 2 40 p m more than 126 000 people were without power in des moines according to mid american energy. While we work on restoring power the estimated restoration time will read under investigation in a major storm or event it can take 24 hours or longer to provide accurate information.

Find out more on our about page. West des moines ia zip codes 50265 50266. Restoration times are estimates only. Power outage also called a power cut a power blackout power failure or a blackout is a short term or a long term loss of the electric power to a particular area.

Poweroutage us is an ongoing project created to track record and aggregate power outages across the united states. Cedar rapids city manager jeff pomeranz said the damage done by monday s storm was more impactful than the 2008 flood which was one of the nation s most expensive natural disasters at the time. Click on a state to see more information. Des moines based midamerican energy which at one point monday reported more than 275 000 customers without power expects power restoration to be a multi day effort said spokesperson tina hoffman.

Some parts of des moines electric grid date back as far as the 1800s cownie said.