Tornado Havoc Has Ohio Residents Facing Week-Long Power Cuts
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Thousands of FirstEnergy Corp.’s customers in Ohio will potentially be without power until next week after two tornadoes hit the northeastern part of the state on Tuesday.
About 252,000 customers of The Illuminating Company were still experiencing outages as of 2 p.m., while 7,900 Ohio Edison customers remain without electricity, FirstEnergy said in an e-mailed statement Thursday. While some of those should be reconnected between today and Saturday, others may not be re-energized until Aug. 14. Downed trees and closed roads have made restoration in some areas challenging, the company said.