A few hundred remain without power after Monday's storms

Jun. 16—Over 700 electric customers remain without power tonight today following storms Monday afternoon and evening that knocked out power at one point to more than 95,000 across the region.

Over the last two days, the majority of outages were in Butler County, though only 146 customers were without power at 10:50 p.m. Wednesday. This was down from 27,700 outages at around noon on Tuesday and 49,000 on Monday night, according to the Duke Energy online outage map.

Duke Energy posted a message to its outage map saying that the storms took down numerous trees, powerlines and poles. It also said in a release that it brought in crews from Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and North Carolina to help.

Outages, by county, as of 10:50 p.m. are as follows, according to the AES Ohio, Duke Energy and Ohio Edison: — Champaign: 305 — Greene: 230 — Butler: 146 — Warren: 35 — Montgomery: 21 — Clark: 4

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