Over 4,350 customers without power in Kansas City area. When will electricity be restored?
More than 4,350 customers remain without electricity Tuesday after powerful storms with strong winds blew through the Kansas City area Saturday night.
“In the KC metro area, restoration from Saturday storms is expected to be completed Tuesday night,” Evergy said on its outage map website. “Line and vegetation crews totally nearly 900 workers from neighboring utilities and additional local and regional contractors are assisting with power restoration in the Kansas City area.”
Evergy said utility crews from Liberty Utilities in Joplin, Missouri and Alliant in Iowa and Wisconsin are working Tuesday to help speed restoration.
In Evergy’s service area, Jackson County has the highest number of customers without power, with 3,100 outages. Meanwhile, Johnson County has about 1,020, Platte County has 150, Clay County has 56, and Cass County has 23.
Meanwhile, Miami and Leavenworth counties have fewer than five customers without power.
Meanwhile, the Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, Kansas, reports five customers without power, and Independence Power & Light reports 14 customers without power.
The Shawnee Mission School District announced that two of its schools, Briarwood and Prairie elementary schools, will be closed Tuesday because power was not expected to be on in the morning. The district hopes to have power restored on Tuesday.
Kansas City announced that it will offer two weeks of free storm debris drop-off at 11660 N. Main Street, 7700 E. U.S. 40 highway and 10301 Raytown Road.
